overtime?

cfaris

Is a company based out of Shreveport, LA required to pay wage employees overtime for hours worked over 40 during the work week?

Hatchetman

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 05-25-03 AT 11:47PM (CST)[/font][p]Yup (assuming your emplyer falls under FLSA, which just about all employers do). While there are some hourly employees who are exempt from the overtime time requirements of FLSA (doctors, lawyers, school teachers and highly paid computer professionals), all waged employees are non-exempt and a State may NOT have a law that says that "non-exempts don't have to be paid time and a half for overtime (over 40 hours in a work week)."

For an employer not to be covered under FLSA, it would have to make less than $500,000 a year or not be involved in ANY manner, including receiving or handling, ANY goods shipped across state lines.