Are you getting the overtime pay you’re entitled to?

According to United States federal law, employees who work more than 40 hours per week are generally entitled to overtime pay, at “time and a half” or 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for each hour of overtime.

Even if an employee is salaried and paid weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, he or she is generally still entitled to overtime pay – although this may depend on state regulations, which sometimes override federal law.

To be ineligible for overtime, an employee must be classified as “exempt.” Normally, only carefully-defined executive, administrative and professional positions are exempt. The rules governing this classification are complex, and companies take advantage of this confusion to misclassify their employees and avoid paying them overtime.

Generally speaking, employees must earn a specific amount of weekly pay and spend most of their time on management, business operations, or highly-skilled professional job duties in order to be classified as exempt; their official job title means nothing. Please contact us if you have any questions about your classification.

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