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Overtime Pay Coverage
More than 130 million American workers are protected (or "covered") by the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA
) for their overtime payment. 'Time and on-half' must be paid for work over forty hours a week. Employees can be covered by the law in two ways:
- Enterprise Coverage
- if you work for a business or organisations or enterprise
which has at least two employees, and that has an annual dollar volume
of sales or business done of at least $500,000.
- if you work in a hospital, businesses providing medical or
nursing care for residents, school or preschool, or government agency.
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Individual Coverage
- if your work regularly
involve you in commerce between States ("interstate commerce").
Individuals are coverer if they are "engaged in commerce or in the
production of goods for commerce" - for example a secretary typing
letters in an office - that will be sent out of state, regularly make
telephone calls to persons located in other States, handle records of
interstate transactions, travel to other States on their jobs, and do
janitorial work in buildings where goods are produced for shipment
outside the State.
- if you are a domestic service worker - housekeeper, full-time babysitter, or a cook.
Source Overtime Pay Coverage
Who makes sure workers are paid overtime?
The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor is
responsible for enforcing overtime payment. If you have questions about
your minimum wage, you can call the nearest office of the Wage and Hour Division.
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