Overtime

The most common and costliest wage and hour mistakes made by employers involve failure to correctly adhere to overtime pay requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  Among the common mistakes made by employers in their overtime practices include paying time-and-a-half for weekends and holidays; calculating overtime on a pay period basis instead of the workweek; and failure to pay overtime when employees weren't authorized to work the additional hours.

 

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FAQs

1. Does an employer have to pay non-exempts who work on weekends and holidays more than time-and-a-half, or will paying them just one-and-a-half times their regular rates do? 
   
   
2. Does an employer have to give employees 30 days' notice when it's changing the way their overtime will be calculated?
   
   
3. Can we limit our legal liability to pay overtime by having employees sign agreements not to work longer than 40 hours a week?
   
   
4. When employees are paid on a biweekly basis, can an employer lump together the hours worked in those two weeks when determining overtime?
   
   
5. The regular workweek for employees in my department is 37.5 hours, rather than 40. Should their overtime be calculated based on the hours they work over 37.5?
   
   
6. Can employees be required to work overtime?
   
   
7. Should a shift differential be included when calculating overtime rates?