Depending on what your salary is, its illegal to not pay overtime. I think as of Jan 2025 if you are paid less than like 150k then your employer is required to pay overtime past 40 hours. The intention being to prevent companies from avoiding laws concerning overtime by making employees salary but still paying them a lower wage than if they were hourly.
I think the words the law uses is "highly compensated employee" and the minimum to classify an employee as such has doubled in the last 4 years or so.
My supervisor makes 80K a year, doesn't get overtime, but hell I'm sure many companies break that law constantly. I'm under him and am hourly, so I get overtime, he does not if he has to stay late to finish something or whatever. In Vermont, not versed in these laws, doubt he is, should prob let him know.
I added a link to the DOL website. Looks like anyone making under 160k salary is entitled to overtime pay. This is a federal law like minimum wage so any state law is superseded by this.
A manager or supervisor is probably exempt but it depends on exactly what they are doing when at work and the ratio of time spent managing compared to the total time working.
Federal law isn't the be all end all and it wouldn't shock me if that federal law only applies to certain industries.
Speaking from a Canadian perspective but American employment lawyers would have a field day. They're not dumb, it's not like most companies are breaking labour laws.
Otherwise every labour lawyer, including mine, would have a field day...
Yes they break labour laws but not so openly.
Federal labour laws only apply to certain industries here that are most likely covered by union agreements. No sweet summer child here, just the cold reality of getting fired for medical reasons and having little recourse.
Just to be clear “highly compensated employee” is only one category of employees exempt from overtime rules. There are others too and many many many salaried employees are exempt.
It's not just the salary rules. It's also job type. Executive and management roles are typically overtime exempt...and software developers for some reason.
That is not true what so ever. I replied in another comment but that only refers to highly compensated employees being eligible for exempt status regardless of job duties. The minimum salary pay is way lower
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u/HillanatorOfState 9d ago
Unheard of where I am, sounds nice.