If your required to pay employees anything over 8 hours per day why does the law include or over 40 hours.

Question

Example:

Monday 8

Tuesday 8

Wednesday 8

Thursday 5 regular hours and 3 hours of paid sick time

Friday 11 (3 hours to make-up time )

Is there overtime pay due?

Answer 1

The laws vary from state to state, but in general there is an 8/40 clause

what this means is

you get paid overtime either based on over 8 or over 40 depending on how much per hour you make....

if you make up to x$ you get overtime over 8, if you make over x$ you only get ovetime for over 40 hours not 8 per day

note, that if you made up that time on friday, you should not be charged sick time, otherwise it should legally count as over 40 hours and 3 hours of overtime....

Answer 2

The reason for the 8/40 law is that you can have a part-time employee that may not go over 40 hours in a week, but works more than eight hours in a day.  They would be entitled to overtime once 8 hours is achieved.

You may have a full-time employee that only works 8 hours a day, but you asked him/her to work a six day.  This would be considered overtime.

Hope this helps.

Overtime is calculated over 8 hours in a day or if he/she exceeds 40 hours in a week.  If the full-time employee works over 8 hours a day then anything over that is overtime.

Answer 3

overtime usually applies to hours WORKED so excludes vacation, sick and holiday hours.