Federal law and specifically, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), requires employers to pay their non-exempt employees, one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked per week in excess of 40 hours. An employer who requires or permits an employee to work overtime is generally required to pay the employee premium pay for such overtime work. The FLSA does not require overtime pay for work on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, or regular days of rest, unless overtime hours are worked on such days. Employers often misclassify employees as “salaried” and thereby deny them their legal right to overtime.
The FLSA, with some exceptions, requires bonus payments to be included as part of an employee’s regular rate of pay in computing overtime.
Source- http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm
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