I just worked a nine hour day straight, no lunch, and I'm completely bushed.
We've been doing a TON of mulching of various of the properties held by the brothers... This week we did two properties in 3 days, this last day we spent seven and a half hours on it, then when I got back to my main complex, it was completely trashed and I had to do at least a cursory trash round... I punched in at 8:30 this morning, and by 5:20 I was so completely bushed that I limped back to the office and clocked out at 5:30 instead of finishing trash round...
I am going to be so royally pissed if they don't give me time and a half for that hour overtime. And they better not expect me to do this very often.
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It's the law
Unless you are under certain contractual terms, overtime MUST be paid.
Rami
RAMI
yeah...
But I haven't been working 40 hours a week lately, so I could imagine them finding a way to get around it.
They under work me most of the time, then they throw days like this at me.
Abigail Drew.
overtime
The following are examples of employees exempt from both the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements:
Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and certain skilled computer professionals (as defined in the Department of Labor's regulations) 1
Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments
Employees of certain small newspapers and switchboard operators of small telephone companies
Seamen employed on foreign vessels
Employees engaged in fishing operations
Employees engaged in newspaper delivery
Farm workers employed on small farms (i.e., those that used less than 500 "man‑days" of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year)
Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm
The following are examples of employees exempt from the overtime pay requirements only:
Certain commissioned employees of retail or service establishments
Auto, truck, trailer, farm implement, boat, or aircraft salespersons employed by non‑manufacturing establishments primarily engaged in selling these items to ultimate purchasers
Auto, truck, or farm implement parts‑clerks and mechanics employed by non-manufacturing establishments primarily engaged in selling these items to ultimate purchasers
Railroad and air carrier employees, taxi drivers, certain employees of motor carriers, seamen on American vessels, and local delivery employees paid on approved trip rate plans
Announcers, news editors, and chief engineers of certain non‑metropolitan broadcasting stations
Domestic service workers who reside in their employers' residences
Employees of motion picture theaters
Farmworkers
It kinda depends on how your job is clasified sorry to say :( at least in the states
http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/minwage.htm
Also depends on the state ...
I think Federal law only requires overtime based on weekly work (40 hours in a week), not on daily work (8 hours in a day). Some states (like California) do put in a provision for a daily overtime requirement, though, so it depends on where you live (and I apologize, as I don't remember where you are).
EDIT: The lack of a lunch break could cause an issue though. Again, depending on your location.
Lunch IS required...
For employees doing 8 hours in a day and on payroll... they do employ some under-the-table workers, though.
I technically -should- have taken lunch after we got done mulching, but that would have been after already doing 7.5 WITHOUT. And I wouldn't have been able to get myself moving again, so I just kept going. They'll probably ball me out for not taking lunch that day, and I'll explain why I couldn't. If I had stopped going at any point, I'd've been done for.
I'm in Ohio. Dunno if there's daily overtime here or only weekly...
Abigail Drew.