Comments on: Overtime Laws – Your Right to Overtime Pay

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:48:54 +0000

We work in a warehouse and gets paid hourly. Recently, my boss just told us that overtime pay starts after the 30 mins after the 8 hour of your regular work hour. which means if you get off at 5:00pm you do not get paid over time if you punch out on 5:25pm. You only get over time pay if you punch out 5:31pm. Is this correct?

By: Virginia

Virginia — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:28:06 +0000

I don’t know if I missed the answer to the question or not, however is Overtime in the state of Virginia required, They always tell us that it is mandtory and then we have to sign off on the paperwork. Please let me know because I am workin almost another 8hrs that is spread over the cousre of a week and I am still working my regular shit.

By: Davis

Davis — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:56:18 +0000

We are an IT Department employees, My employer have us on a weekend rotation, one of us work one weekend at a time and they want us to “monitor” the network: Friday 6-10pm (saturday we work from 8:30 to 2pm (this time is getting paid) , but from 2pm thru 10pm we need to monitor and from 10am to 6pm on Sundays they want us to monitor, but we will only be paid for 4 hours, I want to ask, is being “Stand By” but checking any emails that comes in constitute a Job activity? Is this legal?

By: kris couls

kris couls — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:09:17 +0000

I work as an emt on an ambulance. For a year in a half i worked 2 shifts on the same day but was not paid overtime on the second shift. Our company policy states a workday is from 0700 to 0659 the next day. I worked from 8am-6pm got 2 hours of overtime for going 2 hours over the 8 in one day. I then worked another shift from 8pm-4am the same day and was only paid straight time throughout the 8 hours. Am i entiltled to overtime on the second shift???

By: California

California — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:14:25 +0000

My questions/scenario is in California If an employee works the night shift and begins a shift at 6pm on Friday at the end of one work week and ends the shift at 4am (with 1hour break) the beginning of a different work week. Is the employee still receive overtime?

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:32:06 +0000

@Sky – I don’t know of any such requirement in California. Kentucky requires overtime pay for the 7th consecutive day of work, but I don’t think California does. You should contact the California labor department for more information.

By: Sky Montana

Sky Montana — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:34:46 +0000

I have a question about California Overtime Laws. Is there a “6th day” overtime requirement? For instance, lets say someone works 7 days in a row during a work week, but only 4 hours each day. Would they receive overtime for their 6th and 7th days? Or just the 7th? Or neither?

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:51:12 +0000

@Adam – To my knowledge, Florida does not have this requirement. Some states do, but I do not know of a Florida law that requires overtime for hours over 8 in a single day. You should contact a Florida attorney or the Florida labor department.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:07:25 +0000

Can you provide some more details on Florida overtime laws? Someone I know is swearing that overtime is due for time over eight hours daily, but I can’t find a legal source for it – the manual labor overtime for ten hours is the closest I’ve found.

Kind of important to me, as I work lots of long shifts at my job and I’d like to know whether I should be getting that extra pay.

By: Andrew Flusche

Andrew Flusche — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:21:41 +0000

@Chris – Unfortunately, you’re getting into some pretty complex legal advice. You should contact an employment lawyer who is licensed in your jurisdiction. You definitely want to get this right.