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Work Labor Law For Overtime In Massachusetts
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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.
Summary. Massachusetts law prohibits an employer from discriminating and retaliating against employees in a variety of protected classes. Employers must also provide pregnancy accommodations, protect whistleblowers and give employees to access their personnel files. See EEO, Diversity and Employee Relations.
An employer can terminate any employee, with or without notice.”
Generally, no, there are no federal laws that limit how many hours you can work in a single day. (Though some state labor laws have maximum hour laws for minors.) The federal law that applies to all employees is the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA. This law does not regulate how many hours you can work in a day.
You cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average - normally averaged over 17 weeks. This law is sometimes called the 'working time directive' or 'working time regulations'. You can choose to work more by opting out of the 48-hour week. If you're under 18, you cannot work more than 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week.
The law provides that an employee will receive three times their unpaid wages and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs if the employee takes their case to court and wins. A law that became effective on July 13, 2008 made triple (called “treble”) damages mandatory, if you win your case.
“The FLSA does not limit the number of hours per day or per week that employees aged 16 years and older can be required to work.”
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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. Overtime law in Massachusetts is designed to ensure that workers receive fair compensation for the extra hours they work beyond the standard 40-hour workweek.You have a right to overtime pay anytime you work more than 40 hours in 1 week. Overtime is one and one half times your regular hourly rate. Massachusetts labor laws only count weekly overtime rates – if a worker works more than 8 hours in a single workday, these hours do not count as overtime. Generally, employees who work more than 40 hours in any week must be paid overtime. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), eligible full and part-time employees must receive overtime pay for work that exceeds 40 hours. Most employees working over 40 hours a week must be paid overtime. Overtime pay is 1 ½ times an employee's regular rate of pay. Employees that are entitled to overtime must be paid for all hours worked and time-and-a-half for all hours worked over forty in a workweek.