If you work more than 8 hours in one day, your employer must pay you one and a half times your regular rate of pay.
If you work more than 40 hours in any one work week, your employer must pay you one and a half times your regular rate of pay.
Any time, up to 8 hours you work on a seventh consecutive day of work is overtime. After 8 hours, you should be paid double time.
If you work more than 12 hours in one day, that time should be paid at double time.
If your employer does not pay your overtime, you may recover those amounts, along with interest and penalties.
Your employer can NOT discriminate or retaliate against you if you make a claim for overtime pay.
Overtime Law for Salary Employees
A salaried employee may still be entitled to overtime pay!
A salaried employee is only exempt from overtime laws if they meet certain criteria.
Some employers classify their employees as exempt from overtime laws or as independent contractors even when they do not meet the criteria under California law.
If you are mis-classified as exempt, your employer may owe you for all your overtime hours and perhaps rest breaks. The penalty is a premium of on hour of pay for each day that you missed a meal break or a rest break.
If you are not “exempt” you should be getting paid one and a half times your regular rate of pay for any overtime hours you work.
