What are the overtime regulations in tennessee?

Question

My friend is working for a company in nashville. He works over 70 hours per week and his employer told him that since the company's revenue is less than 500k than they are not required to pay time and a half for overtime hours. I want to know what the exceptions are to not pay overtime.

Answer 1

Tennessee has no wage laws concerning overtime, minimum wage, or the regulation of salaried employees. The United States Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act regulating minimum wage, overtime and salaried employees.

The Department of Labor enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which sets basic minimum wage and overtime pay standards. These standards are enforced by the Department's Wage and Hour Division, a program of the Employment Standards Administration.

Workers who are covered by the FLSA are entitled to a minimum wage of not less than $5.85 per hour effective July 24, 2007. Overtime pay at a rate of not less than one and one-half times their regular rate of pay is required after 40 hours of work in a workweek. Certain exemptions apply to specific types of businesses or specific types of work.

If you are on salary chances are you wont get overtime pay, if you do its normally 1/2 time pay, for instance if you make $10 per hour your overtime rate would only be $5.

You can get more info at:

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/index...

http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/lsques....

Answer 2

sorry...they are mis-informed...the amount of their revenue is irrelevant. under the FEDERAL Fair Labor Standards Act, (this is law, see, and has been since 1938) they must pay time and a-half for any hours worked in excess of 40 per week....one of the few exceptions is hospital employees for whom a rule of "80 hours in a two-week period may be applied"

but for that exception to apply, it must be a collective agreement, and the employer may not switch between the 14-day method and the 7-day method arbitrarily