Labor Laws In California Overtime In Georgia - USLF Multistate Employment Law Handbook - Guide
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In Georgia, employers are not legally required to provide their employees with a break, including rest and meal breaks. Therefore, it is legal for employees to work 8 hours without a break.
Regular, non-health care employees, are permitted, in California, to work four 10-hour shifts as a regular schedule. These employees will not earn daily overtime for those first 10 hours. This means that employees and employers can come to an agreement to create an alternative workweek.
California has regulations for OT over 8 hours in a day, and then additional for the 7th consecutive day. ( ).
The standard definition of full-time hours in California is between 32 and 40 hours per week. However, it's important to note that after the implementation of the ACA, workers are considered part-time if they work less than 30 hours per week, and full-time if they work 30 hours a week or more.
For each overtime hour worked you are entitled to an additional one-half the regular rate for hours requiring time and one-half, and to the full rate for hours requiring double time.
While California labor laws primarily apply to in-state workers, there are scenarios where they may have extraterritorial reach. The central determinant of these situations is the relationship between the employer, the employee, and the state.
The Professional Exemption sets out eight specific professions (law, medicine, dentistry, optometry, architecture, engineering, teaching, and accounting) that are exempt from the first 12 sections of the Wage Orders. It also addresses certain other professions, including nurses, pharmacists and software coders.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) treats contractors as self-employed people. Since the FLSA minimum wage and overtime requirements apply only to employees, it means 1099 workers are exempted from getting compensated for the over 40 hours in a workweek.
Typically, if an individual is working in California, they are subject to California labor laws, irrespective of where they live, including both part-time and full-time, in-state and out-of-state workers.