Overtime?

[sharon1977]

I am an hourly employee in Kansas at a manufacturing job. They have set our schedule for 50 hours per week. They tell us because it is a set schedule and we agreed to it that they don't have to pay us overtime. Is this correct?

Thanks

 

[cbg]

No, it's not. Unless you qualify to be exempt, and if you are being paid hourly in a manufacturing job you are not exempt, you MUST be paid overtime at the rate of 1.5 times your regular hourly rate for any hours over 40 in a week.

A set schedule has nothing to do with it and under neither Federal nor state law can an employee legally waive their right to overtime.

 

[greenfin1]

Right CBG.