DECEMBER
2006 HR QUESTION OF THE MONTH
Q. If
we typically pay our non-exempt employees for upcoming holidays
buy they don't work, must we include that in calculating
overtime pay during that workweek?
A. Not
necessarily. Federal and state overtime rules require the
payment of time and a half pay when an employee has worked more
than 40 hours in a workweek. So, the payment for the
time not worked need not be counted toward the calculation
of overtime pay.
Some firms, however, as a matter of company policy, do count
it toward overtime calculation.
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