Overtime compensation, applicable number of hours, exceptions
Most workers must be paid extra if they work more than 40 hours in a week. That extra pay has to be at least one and a half times their normal pay rate. Workers at amusement or recreation businesses have a different rule — they get that extra pay after 52 hours in a week. Some workers are excused from these rules if federal law already excuses them from overtime pay.
290.505. , applicable number of hours, s. — 1. No employer shall employ any of his employees for a longer than forty hours unless such employee receives for his in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.
2. Employees of an amusement or recreation business that meets the criteria set out in 29 U.S.C. 213(a)(3) must be paid one and one-half times their regular compensation for any hours worked in excess of fifty-two hours in any one-week period.
3. With the exception of employees described in (2), the overtime requirements of subsection (1) shall not apply to employees who are from or overtime requirements including, but not limited to, the exemptions or hour calculation formulas specified in 29 U.S.C. Sections 207 and 213, and any .
4. Except as may be otherwise provided under sections 290.500 to 290.530, this section shall be interpreted in accordance with the , 29 U.S.C. Section 201, et seq., as amended, and the , 29 U.S.C. Section 251, et seq., as amended, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1990 H.B. 1881 § 3, A.L. 2006 Adopted by Initiative, Proposition B, November 7, 2006, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1883 merged with H.B. 2041) Effective 6-25-08 (H.B. 2041); 8-28-08 (H.B. 1883)
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