UNPAID OVERTIME

Federal law generally requires that employees who work more than 40 hours in a week be paid one-and-one-half times their regular hourly wage. However, this overtime pay is only applicable to employees who are not considered exempt. Some employers try to get out of paying overtime pay by classifying their employees as executive, managerial or administrative. There are duties tests that can determine whether or not a person has been misclassified as exempt from overtime pay.

Employees who tend to be misclassified as exempt from overtime pay often have job titles that involve management, IT professional designations or computer programmer designations.