Most employees cannot work more than 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day. If they do, their employer must pay them 1.5 times their normal pay.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. California overtime (OT) laws require non-exempt employees to earn one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay when they work extra hours. Hours 812 of a shift should be paid out at 1.5x regular wages. Anything extending beyond 12 hours will be paid out at twice the regular rate. An eligible employee should receive overtime pay after working 8 hours in a single day. We enforce the State Labor Laws for minimum wage, hours of work, employment of minors, payment of wages, farm labor, nursing mothers in the workplace, and more. Work has started up again nearly a week after a craftworker on the Suffolkled project fell to his death. More than a couple of our Orlando lawyers have served the same clients for more than 30 years.