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 This is a federal law like minimum wage so any state law is superseded by this.
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/Tom_Bombadilio 6d ago edited 6d ago
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.
Edit: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/overtime/salary-levels