For more information on California minimum wage. This article is intended to help establish and manage compensation practices in compliance with California wage payment and hours of work laws.California labor laws apply to most every worker working in California regardless of where your employer is located. Eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work. Any work in excess of eight hours in one workday and any work in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek. "Hours worked" includes all time an employee must be on duty, or on the employer's premises or at any other prescribed place of work. You are required to pay overtime if an individual has spent over 40 hours in a single week working. In South Carolina, employees qualify for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a single workweek. Certain exemptions apply. No employer may discharge or discriminate in the payment of wages against any person because of his or her membership in a labor organization.