Oklahoma Business Law: Is my employer required to pay overtime?

Q: Is my employer required to pay overtime?
A: If the company is required to comply with Federal wage and hour laws (found in the Fair Labor Standards Act), time and one half should be paid to non-exempt employees for all hours worked over 40 in the work week. The U.S. Department of Labor regulates overtime.

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Source: Oklahoma Department of Labor

Posted by Shawn Roberts

On this blog, I write about and try to answer practical Oklahoma legal questions. My focus and most experience is in estate planning and business issues including Oklahoma non-compete law. I make a living as an attorney in the law firm I founded, Shawn J. Roberts, P.C. in Oklahoma City. I live in Edmond with my wife Amy and my two children, Sam (19) and David (11). We live precisely in the path of where the "wind comes sweeping down the plains."

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