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Am I Required to Work Overtime?Navigation: Home > Employment Law> Overtime Pay
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This is a question we get quite frequently from our visitors, most of whom are unwillingly becoming the reason why American productivity is so high (at the expense of added jobs, I'm afraid).
The answer, unfortunately, is yes. If you are a nonexempt employee (i.e. not on salary) you can be required to work overtime, and you can be fired if you refuse to do so (without a legitimate, legal reason not to). However, if you do work overtime, you are entitled to compensation at one and a half times your rate of pay. There are some caveats to the compensation issue. One, your employer can offer you time and a half in exchange, but must clear this with you in advance. Second, overtime is only time worked over 40 hours per work, and does not include time worked over 8 hours a day, if you do not ultimately work 40 hours in the same workweek. |
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