please help i need to know about overtime pay!!! please answer more inside...?

Question

ok so i looked on the web but i can't find the answer i need, i live in california and i wanted to know about over time i know if u work more than 8 hrs in a day and over 40 hrs in a work week u get over time, now if i work 7am-3pm thats 8 hrs and then i go back to work from 9pm to 5am, what are those hrs just new hrs or is that all over time or part of it, i have no clue, this isn't every day but on some days it is please help!! thanks in advance

Answer 1

Most places now only pay overtime for hours over 40. and it would also depend on what they have listed on their work week. I worked at a place where the work week went from Fri. at 12:00 am to Thurs at midnight (Fri - Thurs.) So if your 9pm to 5am fell on Thurs. night then only the first 3 hours counted for that week and the midnight to 5am went on the next week.

I had a boss that would schedule me to work from 6pm to 11pm on Thurs. and then I had to be back the next morning at 5am on Friday! I was looking through the labor laws for my State and found a law on the State records that says if there are LESS that 8 hours in between shifts then the second shifts hours should be counted along with the first shift as if they were one shift and must be paid as overtime!

Answer 2

Typically overtime is based on the total number of hours you worked within a pay period (40 hours for 7 days is the norm). On the shifts you mention, you get the appropriate amount of breaks, so it is only if you beat over 40 hours a week that you would be earning overtime. You are not salaried or contracted, as these rules would not apply in such a situation, right? So, in general, your overtime pay would be anything OVER 40 hours for the entire payperiod (or week be it T to T, M to M, etc, however they calculate the pay). I also assume that your company does not have "special" pay on Sunday like time-and-a-half or an extra three dollars an hour or something (common in the NE) as this adjusts the overtime pay period to only 6 days (days with "special" pay are not included on overtime calculations). Does this all make sense? H0ope it helps!

Answer 3

I think overtime counts as as more than 40 hours a week. If you work 12 hours one day and 4 hours the next, you havent earned any overtime.

Answer 4

You probably would want to make sure with your payroll person at your job. But I think it's just new hours if you haven't exceeded your 40 hrs for the week.

Answer 5

I don't know about CA, but in PA if you were off for more than 4 hours between shifts, no over time is due.

Answer 6

It depends also if your are salary or a hourly paid. How much? What do you do? What is your position and title? You can also go to http://www.dol.gov/ to find some answers.