Anyone know anything about Labor Laws?

[hpkeeper]

I'm just trying to find out if there are any provisions give to a worker that works on an hourly wage, who also works more than 8 hours in one shift.

If it helps, I work in New York state.

I Looked on New York States Website and looked through the laws, but it's like reading a dictionary, only a dictionary is alphabetized.

 

[vi edit]

Provisions like what? Breaks, overtime, meals?

 

[hpkeeper]

Well... I was speaking with my father and he seems to think that any hour above and beyond
8 hours in a single shift, the worker recieves time and a half.

I think this may be true, but only for full time workers or something, it just seems too easy
that I've been missing out on pay because I was too stupid to look it up.

Is this true?

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper
Well... I was speaking with my father and he seems to think that any hour above and beyond
8 hours in a single shift, the worker recieves time and a half.

I think this may be true, but only for full time workers or something, it just seems too easy
that I've been missing out on pay because I was too stupid to look it up.

Is this true?

Well , the Dept. of Labor and this administration have been messing with overtime definitions.
You should read the Labor Rules that are supposed to be posted in an open place near where employees congregate, typically near the time clock / break area.
Roughly speaking, if you are an employee , salaried or otherwise, and you are working past the 40 hr / week or 80 hr / pay period if on a bi- weekly basis, you are entitled to overtime pay. There may be exceptions to this. I'm surprised no one was bitching about the Dept. of Labor telling employers how to work around Federal Labor Laws regarding overtime. It was in the papers last week, yet slid right on by while everyone was kvetching about immigration policy changes.
If your company hasn't been paying you that overtime, chances are your employer is playing fast and loose with the books, not to mention cheating you for your work on their behalf. Not a good sign in general.

 

[cliftonite]

I have a friend named Google who knows everything!! You should ask him

 

[hpkeeper]

Cliftonite - I checked google. Which is how I Got to the NYS department of Labor webpage

AlienCraft - I'm not a full time worker though, I'm talking about a full OR part time Waged worker, working
longer than an 8 hour shift in a single day. Does that worker get paid time and a half for each additional hour beyond
the 8th?

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper
Cliftonite - I checked google. Which is how I Got to the NYS department of Labor webpage

AlienCraft - I'm not a full time worker though, I'm talking about a full OR part time Waged worker, working
longer than an 8 hour shift in a single day. Does that worker get paid time and a half for each additional hour beyond
the 8th?

There are state to state variations and all of this would be answered in those information sheets that should be posted near your time clock / lockers / break room.
Being as I'm self employed now, I'm a little rusty on recent changes, but I know that what you are describing sounds like you need to be paid some more. Check with your local Employment Developement Office (unemployment office, whatever they call it in NY.)
Good luck,
BTW, getting fed up with being ripped off by employers is what drove me into owning my own business.

 

[Nocturnal]

The way it works with my company is if your hours accumilate over 80+ hours then you start to receive over-time (time and a half). If you work just nine hours out of the day you just get paid your normal hourly rate until you hit your eighty hours.

 

[hpkeeper]

we have about 6 places where you can punch in... and none of them have any labor laws posted of any sort. I'll look around tonight
while I'm in "hell"

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
The way it works with my company is if your hours accumilate over 80+ hours then you start to receive over-time (time and a half). If you work just nine hours out of the day you just get paid your normal hourly rate until you hit your eighty hours.

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[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
The way it works with my company is if your hours accumilate over 80+ hours then you start to receive over-time (time and a half). If you work just nine hours out of the day you just get paid your normal hourly rate until you hit your eighty hours.

This strikes me as being "right" :disgust: The way "they" keep tweaking the wage laws is boderline malicious, imo.
BTW, hpkeeper, did you receive an employee handbook when you got the job?
The answer might be in there.

 

[dartworth]

Were I work we get the following:

time and a half after eight hours double after 10
time and a half on Saturdays double after 10
double time on Sundays

after working 24 hrs straight...triple time

 

[kranky]

I do not think the law requires time-and-a-half after 8 hours per day. Some employers may do that voluntarily, though. I believe over 40 hours/week is the measuring stick for requiring overtime pay.

dartworth wrote:

after working 24 hrs straight...triple time

After 24 hours straight, I think you ought to get triple :beer:!

 

[hpkeeper]

Dartworth - what state do you work in and where do you work????

 

[dartworth]

I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. These aren't state laws. These are the conditions that my union has negotiated for it's members.

 

[hpkeeper]

I need a union.

 

[toant103]

there's no point to working past 40 hrs each week, they tax the crap out of you.