hours in a pay period

Kandies

I have an employee who is hourly, we pay on a semi-monthly schedule, she would like to work 4 days at 9 hours and the 5th day for 4 hours to = 40 hours in a given week. or to adjust her schedule on an as needed basis per day but to stay withint the 40 hours per week. Would we be within the law to do this without worrying about any overtime (unless required) pay if we stay within the 40 hours for the week?

or since we are semi-monthly the 2 pay periods are 86.67 per pay period would we need to be concerned within these hours.

Please let me know if I have confused you. But thank you for your help.

Kandies

Robert Kaiser MO

Wage and Hour regs measure overtime by the week, not pay period. If you keep the hours to 40 or less in a week, regardless of how it is divided up in the week, you will not have any federal overtime. Some states have different rules on daily overtime, but there is none in Missouri. Bob