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29-551: [REDACTED] Look up OT , ot , -ot , or ot- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. OT or Ot may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] OT (band) , a Serbian pop/rock band Ot, stage name of Anupong Prathompatama, a member of the Thai rock band Carabao Operation Transformation (TV series) , an Irish health and fitness programme OT: Our Town ,

58-611: A backward bending supply curve of labour . Overtime pay rates can cause workers to work longer hours than they would at a flat hourly rate. Overtime laws, attitudes toward overtime and hours of work vary greatly from country to country and between various sectors. Time off in lieu (TOIL), compensatory time , or comp time is a type of work schedule arrangement that allows (or requires) workers to take time off instead of, or in addition to, receiving overtime pay. A worker may receive overtime pay plus equal time off for each hour worked on certain agreed days, such as public holidays . In

87-477: A 2002 documentary film about a high school in Compton, California that stages Thornton Wilder's Our Town Operación Triunfo (Spanish TV series) , a Spanish reality television talent show Ot, the title character of Ot el bruixot , a Spanish comic strip Ot, one of the two main characters of Ot en Sien , a Dutch children's book series Businesses and organizations [ edit ] Oakville Transit ,

116-499: A Sunday, they may be paid twice their regular rate (i.e., "double time"). Directives issued by the European Union must be incorporated into law by member states. Directives 93/104/EC (1993), 2000/34/EC (2000), which limited working hours, were consolidated into 2003/88/EC (2003). Employers and employees can agree to opt out, under certain circumstances. The directives require: The directives apply to: Exemptions: In Japan

145-458: A boiler People [ edit ] Ot of Urgell (c. 1065–1122), Catholic saint and bishop of Urgell Ot de Montcada , 11th century Catalan troubadour Ot Pi Isern ( fl.  1988–? ), Spanish bike-trials rider Ot Louw (1946–2021), Dutch film editor Oswald Tschirtner (1920–2007), Austrian artist also known as O.T. Acronym [ edit ] Offensive tackle , either of two football positions Overtime (sports) ,

174-859: A complaint or instituting a proceeding based on the FLSA. An employer that engages in any form of verifiable retaliation would be liable under the Fair Labor Standards Act Section 216(b) for equitable relief including reinstatement, promotion, payment of lost wages, and payment of liquidated damages. Acts of retaliation include terminating employment, disrupting the workplace, threats, acts of physical violence, and constructive discharge. Out of approximately 120 million American workers, nearly 50 million are exempt from overtime laws (US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division , 1998). As of 2021, salaried workers making $ 684 per week or more are exempt from overtime pay (equivalent to $ 35,568 per year). In 2004,

203-431: A mammalian hormone Other uses in science and technology [ edit ] Oblivious transfer , a type of cryptography protocol Operational technology , hardware/software technology dedicated to physical assets in an enterprise Operational transformation , an optimistic concurrency control method for group editing Optimality theory , a linguistic model Oxygenated treatment , used to reduce corrosion in

232-569: A sports game past regulation because of a tie game Off topic Overtime , a designation indicating working past normal work hours Other uses [ edit ] Ot (Cyrillic) (Ѿ, ѿ), a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet The OT , a television postgame show of NFL on Fox Oakville Trafalgar High School , Oakville, Ontario, Canada Otmoor or Ot Moor, an area of wetland and wet grassland in Oxfordshire, England Aeropelican Air Services , IATA airline designator OT O-T map ,

261-412: A type of medieval world map See also [ edit ] Ott (disambiguation) O. T. Fagbenle (born 1981), also referred to as O-T Fagbenle, British actor, writer and director Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title OT . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

290-549: Is important to determine if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee. Foremost, pursuant to California Labor Code Section 510, non-exempt employees must be compensated at one and a half times the regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight hours in a workday, 40 hours in a workweek and the first eight hours of a seventh consecutive workday. Employees in California are entitled to double-time for working more than twelve hour workdays or more than eight hours on

319-540: The California Labor Code , an " employee " is "[any] person, including aliens and minors, rendering actual service in any business for an employer, whether gratuitously or for wages or pay, whether the wages or pay are measured by the standard of time, piece, task, commission, or other method of calculation, and whether the service is rendered on a commission, concessionaire, or other basis." Independent contractors are not employees covered by overtime laws and so it

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348-554: The Labour Standards Act ( 労働基準法 ) of 1947 provides for an eight-hour work day and 40-hour workweek with at least one day off per week. The act requires a premium of at least 25% over the ordinary hourly wage for any overtime work, 35% for any work on prescribed off days, and an additional 25% for any work between 10 pm and 5 am. Employers must enter into an overtime agreement with a labour representative prior to any overtime work by employees, and this agreement must stipulate to

377-451: The FLSA. Several factors determine whether a worker is an employee, who might be entitled to overtime compensation, or an independent contractor, who would not be so entitled. The employment agreement stating that a party is an independent contractor does not make it necessarily so. The nature of a job determines whether an employee is entitled to overtime pay, not employment status or the field of work. Classes of workers who are exempt from

406-615: The United States was 7th out of 24 OECD countries in terms of annual working hours per worker. (See Working time for a complete listing.) On August 23, 2004, President George W. Bush and the Department of Labor proposed changes to regulations governing implementation of the law. According to one study, the changes would have had significant impact on the number of workers covered by overtime laws and have exempted several million additional workers. The Bush administration maintained that

435-405: The United States, such arrangements are currently legal in the public sector but not in the private sector. For example, non-exempt workers must receive at least one and one half times their normal hourly wage for every hour worked beyond 40 hours in a work week. For example, workers who clock 48 hours in one week would receive the pay equivalent to 52 hours of work (40 hours + 8 hours at 1.5 times

464-807: The bus company serving Oakville, Ontario, Canada Obsession Telescopes , an American telescope maker Organisation Todt , a civil and military engineering group of Nazi Germany Oyu Tolgoi , a mine in Mongolia Religion [ edit ] Old Testament , the first part of the Christian Bible Operating Thetan , a spiritual state in Scientology Ot Ene , the Mongolian goddess of marriage Science and technology [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Occupational therapy Occupational therapist Oxytocin ,

493-646: The compensation of employees in California. California employers must comply with both, since there are two sources of applicable law (federal and state). In California, based on California Labor Code 1171 , only an employment relationship is required for overtime rules to apply. Under the California Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders , an "employer" is "any person ... who directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other person, employs or exercises control over wages, hours, or working conditions of any person." Under

522-728: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OT&oldid=1255479472 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Masculine given names Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages OT">OT The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Overtime Most national countries have overtime labour laws designed to dissuade or prevent employers from forcing their employees to work excessively long hours (such as

551-540: The maximum number of overtime hours that an employee may work, which may be no more than 15 hours per week, 45 hours per month and 360 hours per year. In the United States the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 applies to employees in industries engaged in or producing goods for interstate commerce. The FLSA establishes a standard work week of 40 hours for certain kinds of workers, and mandates payment for overtime hours to those workers of one and one-half times

580-573: The nature of their work, criminal investigators are required to work, or be available to work, substantial amounts of "unscheduled duty." Availability pay is generally an entitlement that an agency must provide if the required conditions are met, but is optional in any agency's Office of the Inspector General that may employ fewer than five criminal investigators. The following agencies are covered under LEAP: Independent contractors are not considered employees and therefore are not protected by

609-431: The next week (assuming over 40 hours is overtime), and be paid an extra amount equivalent to 4 hours work (8 multiplied by 0.5). In Australia, such arrangements both in the private and public sector are common. In some cases, particularly when employees are represented by a labour union , overtime may be paid at a higher rate than 1.5 times the hourly pay. In some factories, for example, if workers are required to work on

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638-450: The normal hourly wage). With comp time, the worker could (or would have to) forgo the 12 hours of overtime pay and instead take 8 paid hours off at some future date. In some other jurisdictions, such as Canada, employers might be required to pay the overtime at the higher rate (e.g. 1.5 times the normal rate), but also be allowed to require time off in lieu at the normal rate. Thus, an employee might work 48 hours in one week, and 32 hours

667-406: The practical impact on working Americans would be minimal and that the changes would help clarify an outdated regulation. In particular, the new rules would have allowed more companies to offer flextime to their workers instead of overtime. The definition of exempt employees (ineligible for overtime) is regularly tested in the courts. A recent case is Encino Motorcars v. Navarro , which addresses

696-416: The purposes of overtime compensation under federal law, they are working more than 8 hours for purposes of California overtime law, and rounding the 6- and 10-hour workdays to two 8-hour workdays would cheat the employee out of two hours of overtime pay. Perhaps the biggest difference between California and federal overtime law relates to the administrative exemption's "primarily engaged" in duties that meet

725-648: The question of whether automobile dealer service advisors are eligible for overtime. A company may harm themselves by docking a salaried employee for disciplinary reasons. Uber is an example of a company that, in various jurisdictions, has been subject to litigation regarding exemptions. The New York Times noted in 2017 that "Despite their appeal, the apps have faced a wave of criticism, including concerns over wheelchair accessibility and driver pay." The state of California 's overtime laws differ from federal overtime laws in many respects, and they involve overlapping statutes , regulations , and precedents that govern

754-613: The regulation include certain types of administrative, professional, and executive employees. To qualify as an administrative, professional, or executive employee and therefore not be entitled to overtime, three tests must be passed based on salary basis, duties, and salary level. There are many other classes of workers who may be exempt including outside salespeople, certain agricultural employees, certain live-in employees, and certain transportation employees. Employees can neither waive their FLSA protections nor abridge them by contract. An employer may not retaliate against an employee for filing

783-493: The seventh consecutive workday of a single workweek. Under federal law there are only 40 hour weekly overtime limits. The eight-hour overtime limit in California frequently gives rise to wage-and-hour litigation for violations of state (but not federal) labour laws. For example, "comp time" schemes in which employers tell employees that since they worked 10 hours on Monday they can work 6 hours on Tuesday are illegal because even though employees are not working more than 40 hours for

812-541: The situation in the textile mills in the 1920s). These laws may take into account other considerations than humanitarian concerns, such as preserving the health of workers so that they may continue to be productive, or increasing the overall level of employment in the economy. One common approach to regulating overtime is to require employers to pay workers at a higher hourly rate for overtime work. Companies may choose to pay workers higher overtime pay even if not obliged to do so by law, particularly if they believe that they face

841-431: The workers' normal rate of pay for any time worked above 40 hours. The law creates two broad categories of employees, Employers are not required to pay exempt employees overtime but must do so for non-exempt employees. Law Enforcement Availability Pay (LEAP) is a type of premium pay that is paid to federal law enforcement officers who are classified as GS-1811 or FP-2501, criminal investigator or special agent. Due to

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