Mandatory Overtime for Straight Time Pay
Can an employer require MANDATORY overtime without paying overtime pay (time and a half) because an employee does not have the minimum of 40 hours regular time due to PTO or vacation days in that week?
1 answer | asked Aug 17, 2007 06:50 AM [EST] | applies to Ohio
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The more accurate question, in terms of overtime law, is whether the employer must treat vacation or PTO hours as "hours worked" when calculating the number of hours worked in a work week for overtime purposes. The answer is "no," vacation and overtime hours are not hours worked. Thus, if your employer requires you to work 8 hours on a Saturday in the same week that you took 40 hours of vacation or sick time, then you have worked only 8 hours that week for overtime purposes. Since 8 does not get you over 40, you are not entitled to overtime for those 8 hours.
posted by Neil Klingshirn | Aug 17, 2007 2:04 PM [EST]
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