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What is overtime?

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What is overtime?

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Established by the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), overtime requirements were designed after the Depression (1938) as a means of encouraging economic recovery. Specifically it created a monetary penalty for employers who did not spread their existing work among a greater number of employees. Overtime pay was intended as an incentive to employers to hire more people, rather than increasing the hours worked. This FLSA provision is still required of all employers with penalties enforced through the Department of Labor (DOL). Who is eligible for Overtime pay? Within the FLSA an important distinction is drawn between employees covered by the Overtime provision, non-exempt, and those not covered, exempt, as applies to their occupations. Non-Exempt Status: Support positions both administrative and technical covered by provisions of the law are non-exempt from overtime requirements and are eligible to receive overtime pay. At the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), this includes

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A. The word overtime has a technical definition under the FLSA, and means all time actually worked over a “threshold.” The usual threshold is 40 hours per work week. Some government or medical jobs may have alternative thresholds.

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For most employees, overtime hours are any hours actually worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Actual hours worked does not include time an employee takes off for vacation, sick days, or holidays. Overtime hours are supposed to be paid at time-and-a-half of an employee’s regular rate of pay. For example if you make $10 per hour, then you should be paid $15 per hour for all hours you work over 40 in a work week.

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A. For most employees, overtime is the hours a person works over 40 in one workweek. Overtime is supposed to be paid at a rate of one and one-half times an employee’s regular rate of pay. For example, if you make $10 per hour, then you should be paid $15 per hour for all hours worked over 40 in a work week. For a free evaluation of your potential overtime case by an overtime attorney, click here.

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Overtime is a term used to describe hours worked over a legal limit or in excess of convention. In many nations, employees may not work more than 40 hours in a week or eight hours in a day. Overtime hours must be compensated at a different rate, acknowledging that overtime puts additional strain and stress on an employee. Conversationally, “overtime” may refer both to these overtime hours and to the additional compensation. Typically, this compensation is time and a half pay, although in some areas it may be double time. People who work full time jobs are often at risk of accruing overtime hours because any small deviation from their schedule can cause them to run over. For example, if someone needs to come in early for a conference call with a different time zone, or stay late to finish something, he or she will run into overtime over the course of the week without an schedule adjustment such as a long lunch. Many companies try to avoid running their employees into overtime because of

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