California Overtime Pay Laws
Under both federal and state law, overtime compensation is based on an employee’s regular rate of pay. Under California law, employers must pay one and a half times an employee’s regular rate where an employee worked more than eight per workday or more than 40 hours per week. Also, an employer must pay double the rate of pay if an employee has worked more than 12 hours are worked in any single day.
The employer bears the burden of proving that employees fit “plainly and unmistakably” within an exemption to the overtime compensation requirement. Workers that are employed as “administrative,” “professional,” or “executive” employees are generally exempt from overtime pay requirements. California regulations provide very specific definitions of these three exempt categories.
The statue of limitations under the Federal Fair Labor and Standards Act is two years, but it is extended to three years for “willful” violations. The statute of limitations for wage claims under California law is generally four years from the time the compensation was due.
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