My father has worked 60 hours a week for nearly his whole life. His company now decides to stop paying their employees overtime because they are not meeting their greedy needs (they already make 6 million a month, quite a huge sum for what the company does). It is legal to refuse to pay overtime. If so, what can be done?
2007-07-24 17:39:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
As far as I know it is totally legal. If he is full time salaried I doubt there is anything he can do. This is why as much as some groan about unions that we should all have them. My dad's company decided to do away with their pensions. Was the company hurting? Nope, they were in their second best year ever. Its all about money and profit. They couldn't care less about people. Its all about dollar signs and quite frankly its sickening. You see more and more people needing blackberries for work or cell phones and being on call and working from home yet not being paid for it. In America we don't care about employees or their families...just how much blood, sweat and tears we can get out of them before we toss them away like yesterday's trash. Its disgusting! Where I work I don't get paid overtime and it is just expected you will put in the extra hours like you have no life outside work.
2007-07-24 17:53:28 · answer #1 · answered by brat789456 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on who he works for and what type of labor it is. But without going into a half hour of labor laws, you can roughly boil it down to this. Is he an hourly employee (versus salaried)? Has he always been paid overtime in the past? Just call your local Dept. of Labor, and they can tell you if he should receive it. They will get him the overtime pay if he is supposed to receive it, along with protection from firing for retaliation. Make sure you are right before you file a case, and remember, there are state laws and federal laws. Which one applies? The courts has said 'whichever one gives the greatest level of protection. If he HAS been getting it in the past, he probably is entitled to it now.
2007-07-24 17:52:57 · answer #2 · answered by srmm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By law if your father is an hourly employee he must be paid overtime. If he is not he needs to go to EDD (unemployment Office) and ask for the labor board and file a complaint. This will then go before a labor judge and all back wages will be paid.
2007-07-24 17:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by mike d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He may be considered exempt if he is professional or manages anyone. If he is exempt they don't need to pay overtime. Non exempt employees must be paid over 40 hours in a week. The department of labor enforces it.
2007-07-24 17:45:13 · answer #4 · answered by shipwreck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well this depends on if your father is on salary or hourly wages!
You can look into Labor laws through the Labor Depatment in your local area.
If your father is on salary, the company legally does not have to pay him overtime.
If your father is on hourly, than they should be paying him ot for any hours over 40.
2007-07-24 17:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact the National Labor Relations Board and file a complaint. YOU MUST PAY PEOPLE FOR THE WORK THEY DO PERIOD. as to over time check with the labor board.
2007-07-24 17:44:22 · answer #6 · answered by copestir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trying to Disscus wth management, if there is not worked so stop overtime working
2007-07-24 17:56:52 · answer #7 · answered by fanny f 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk to a lawyer that handles labor dispute cases...
2007-07-24 17:43:06 · answer #8 · answered by AZTECAMAN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop working over time,
2007-07-24 17:48:57 · answer #9 · answered by fuzzykitty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is why "labor unions" were formed. :-})
2007-07-24 17:48:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋