The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires enterprises engaged in interstate or foreign commerce and state and local government to pay overtime of 1½ times an employee's regular rate of pay for hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek, unless the employee is considered exempt from overtime. FLSA does not require that overtime be paid for hours worked in excess of eight hours per day or on weekends or holidays. However, states are permitted to provide workers greater overtime protections than those offered by FLSA. In most cases, only public sector employees are permitted to receive compensatory (comp) time off in lieu of monetary overtime compensation.
What Good Is Comp Time If You Can't Take It?
Cleveland police officers complained that after accepting compensatory time off instead of overtime pay, they were barred from actually using the time. What did the courts say?
Final Overtime Regs Make Their Debut: What They Mean for Employers
The U.S. Department of Labor has finally issued new regulations for the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Now employers have only 120 days to bring their companies into compliance. But don't have a heart attack - we're here to help.
Most Employers Have OT Policies, but Not All Are in Writing
The vast majority of HR professionals report that their company requires employees to gain approval prior to working overtime, but many who have such a policy have not put it in writing, according to a recent Compensation.BLR.com poll.
OT Miscalculations Cost Wal-Mart $4M in California
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., has agreed to pay more than $3.9 million in overtime, penalties, and interest to approximately 50,000 employees in the state of California, the state's labor commissioner announced.
