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Labor Laws For California Overtime In Massachusetts
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California non-exempt workers are entitled to daily overtime if they work over 8 hours in a single day. The federal rule only provides time and a half for 40+ hours per week. If you work more than 8 hours in any one day, you are owed time and a half for any hours worked over 8.
Your employer may dictate your work schedule, and in some instances, that can include overtime hours. It is not uncommon for an employee to be terminated or seriously disciplined if they refuse to work overtime hours. Under California state law, employers have this right if an employee refuses to work overtime hours.
Exempt employees are normally given what is referred to as “white-collar duties.” These include executive, administrative, or professional duties. We must, therefore, look at the duties an employee performs to determine if they are executive, administrative, or professional responsibilities.
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. ( ).
Working more than 8 hours in a day offers the same overtime rate as over 40 hours in a week. Even if the employee works less than 40 hours in the week, long days provide additional compensation. If the long day extends to more than 12 hours, the rate increases to double the employee's regular hourly rate.
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.
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.
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Most employees must be paid one and onehalf times their regular hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a given work week. For instance, in California, the initial amount of time an employee must work before receiving overtime pay is only eight hours.The FLSA states that all nonexempt employees are entitled to overtime pay for working over 40 hours in a workweek. The state overtime law in Massachusetts follows federal overtime laws in that it requires overtime for hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. California: Nonexempt employees are eligible for overtime pay if they work more than eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, or six consecutive days. Overtime wages are 1.5 times an employee's regular pay rate for each hour worked over 40 in a workweek. In the U.S., the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) oversees federal overtime laws. Most employees must be paid 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a given work week. The standard overtime rate under California law is 1.5 times an employee's regular pay rate. Nonexempt workers must be paid overtime pay at a rate of not less than one and one-half times their regular rates of pay after 40 hours of work in a workweek.