In California, unpaid overtime is illegal for non-exempt employees. If you are a non-exempt employee, your employer has to pay 1.5 times your regular rate if you work over eight hours a day, 40 hours a week, or the first eight hours on the seventh consecutive day. Meanwhile, in certain instances, your employer may be …
California has several requirements in place that allow employers to exempt employees from overtime pay, and while working on a salary is one, it is not the end-all, be-all of conditions. Salaried employees can still receive overtime pay, as long as they don’t meet California’s other conditions for being exempt. Unfortunately, some employers are quick …