Overtime

The Fair Labor Standards Act , or FLSA, was passed into law by Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938. This was the first time that the term overtime was used on the national level. The Fair…

Nonexempt employees must be paid overtime pay at a rate 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for any time they work over 40 hours per workweek. If you have been wrongfully denied overtime pay, you are entitled to file…

If you are working in excess of 40 hours per week and not receiving overtime pay, you may be entitled to substantial back pay. Every year, workers in all kinds of jobs are paid a salary and are told by…

What is an exempt versus nonexempt employee? How do you determine if you are an exempt or nonexempt employee? Does being paid a salary have anything to do with it? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed in 1938…

There are many misconceptions about what the law requires with regards to overtime pay. One of those misconceptions is that if you are a salaried employee, you are not entitled to overtime. You may have heard that if you are…

Rather than hiring more employees, employers sometimes attempt to save money by requiring their existing salaried employees to work longer hours, but without being paid overtime. This is a widespread phenomenon across many industries and often happens in violation of…

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which is the federal law governing overtime pay, if an employee is nonexempt from its requirements, an employer cannot refuse to pay them overtime pay for any time worked over 40 hours in…