Deskin Law Firm

To determine whether you are entitled to overtime, it is important to determine whether you are exempt or non-exempt from overtime. To be exempt means you do not get overtime and to be non-exempt means that you do get overtime. An analysis of your job duties or description needs to be conducted to determine if you are entitled to overtime.

Often times employees who are owed overtime are simply not paid the overtime they are owed, like those that work in retail store, insurance company, law firms or restaurant, as examples.

Overtime cases also arise when employees are not paid properly for:

- working more than 8 hours in a day (time and a half),

- working more than 12 hours in a day (double time),

- working more than 40 hours in a week (time and a half),

- travel time between job sites,

- activities before and after your shift starts,

- activities to prepare for work that are central to work activities,

- working for seven or more consecutive days out of seven,

- working 72 hours in a week.

Overtime Wages are wages of 1.5 times your regular rate.