Overtime Laws
Babysitters, Nannies, and Domestic Help
Misclassification of Overtime
U.S. Federal Overtime Law
Fair Labor Standards Act
Overtime for Waiters and Waitresses
Required Lunch Break
Comp Time in lieu of Overtime
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Required Lunch Breaks
Does your employer require you to work during lunch breaks?
PayMyOvertime.com is a free content website providing information to
educate the working public about their rights when they work overtime.
This is a general guide, and in no way meant to replace the advice of a
qualified attorney of law. Do you spend your lunch break or other “off
the clock” time engaged in a work-related meeting? Worse yet, have you had
to get lunch for your boss on your lunch break? When you are working for
your employer, such as while eating lunch, and your employer knows it, you
are entitled to be paid for that time. If those work hours push you over
40 hours per week, then you are also entitled to overtime pay at time and
a half for those extra hours.
There are many ways that employers may illegally fail to pay you for all
of your actual work time. For example, you may take short breaks which you
are not paid for even though overtime laws generally say you must be paid
for short breaks. You might report to work on time, are ready to work, and
yet are not allowed to clock in. You may have significant work-related
tasks to do before or after being “on the clock” for which you are not
paid. Assembly line workers at an IBP meatpacking plant recently won a
$3.1 million overtime award for these kinds of violations. Or, you may be
a retail employee who has finished work for the day, are forced to go “off
the clock,” yet wait trapped in the store unpaid until the manager lets
you out. Don’t let this abuse go on any longer! Best Buy recently paid a
settlement of$5.4 million for not paying employees for their time waiting
to leave the store in the evening and for other unpaid work time. The
number of ways that employers illegally cheat you out of overtime pay is
limited only by their imaginations!
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