California Overtime Wage and Hour Laws: Keeping Your Employer’s Hand Out of Your Wallet. Protect your rights under California overtime law. You can bring your claim under California law up to 4 years later.

Don't be ripped off by your employer. Under California wage and hour law, you are entitled to overtime pay. This Guide will help keep your employer's hand out of your wallet.

California wage and hour lawyer on California Wage and Hour Overtime laws.

With these trying economic times more and more workers are being forced to forego pay which they are entitled to under California law. This is happening across America. Not just here in California. With high unemployment and so many over-qualified job seekers many workers feel pressured to work "off the clock." That is, not receive wages that they are entitled to under the law. For other workers, they feel pressured not to report employers stealing their wages, because they know that the next person will probably not complain. Because they have a spouse, a mortgage and hungry kids to feed. This is the work place reality in California today.

One way which employers steal employee wages is not paying overtime or "underpaying" overtime.

California Wage and Hour laws have Overtime provisions. California's wage and hour laws are much stricter than federal wage and hour laws and may be different than other states. Thus, this article about California overtime law only applies to California employees.

A California overtime lawyer and California overtime attorney provides the following overview of overtime law in California.

OVERTIME: TIME AND ONE-HALF

California has a general overtime provision. Persons 18 years of age or older shall not be employed more than eight hours in any workday or more than 40 hours in any workweek unless they receive one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any workday and over 40 hours in the workweek.

In California, a day's work is 8 hours of labor. Employment beyond eight hours in any workday or more than six days in any workweek is permissible provided the employee is compensated for the overtime at not less than:

1. One and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight hours up to and including 12 hours in any workday, and for the first eight hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek; and
2. Double the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in any workday and for all hours worked in excess of eight on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.


EXEMPTIONS AND EXCEPTIONS (Read the fine print)

California overtime laws have a number of exemptions. An "exemption" means that the overtime law does not apply to a particular classification of employees.

There are also a number of exceptions to California's general overtime law. An "exception" means that overtime is paid to a certain classification of employees on a different basis.

Be sure to consult with a California wage and hour attorney if you feel like you have not been properly paid overtime pursuant to California law.




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