Overtime Policy

Sample 1

No employee may work overtime without prior and expressed authorization from their supervisor. If employees (except for exempt personnel) are required to work beyond their regular schedule, they will be paid on a straight time basis up to forty (40) hours in one work week. A supervisor may adjust an employee's schedule within the same work week so that total hours worked do not exceed forty (40), in which case no overtime is owed; however, once an employee has actually worked more than forty (40) hours in a work week, overtime pay cannot be waived, deferred, or replaced with time off -- payment at one and one-half times the normal rate must be paid for all hours actually worked beyond forty (40) in that work week. Compensation is not paid for time spent on meal breaks.

Sample 2

Non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act are eligible for overtime for all hours worked in excess of 40 in any work week. We hope you will comply with any requests to work overtime. The Company will also try to give you as much notice as possible when overtime will be mandated. All overtime designated by your manager is approved overtime. If an employee works overtime without approval, the overtime must be paid, however the employee may be subject to disciplinary action.

Overtime is paid at the rate of one-and-one-half times (1-½x) your regular hourly rate of pay. No non-worked lunch, sick, holiday or vacation time is included in calculating overtime.