Overtime Compensation Lawyer Los Angeles

Employees who work during their “spare time” are entitled to overtime compensation. It’s also a mechanism to ensure that businesses don’t compel employees to work excessive hours and don’t hire new employees who may be due benefits even if they’re paid the same.

Overtime is governed under California Employment Code 510. A day’s work is defined under the legislation as eight hours of effort. It goes on to say :

 Any additional work done in excess of eight hours in a single workday, 40 hours in a single workweek, and on the seventh day of work, the first eight hours that an employee works in any one workweek, the employee is entitled to reimbursement from the employer at a rate of one and a half times the regular rate of pay.

 Any additional work done in a single workday that exceeds 12 hours is entitled to reimbursement by the employer at twice the standard rate of his or her salary.