Wage Laws, was Holiday Observances Phone Rates (was Re: Kennedy)

Dec 12, 2005 0 Replies

In snipped-for-privacy@panix.com (Seth Breidbart) writes: [ snip ]


According to the "Your Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act"
> poster (as posted in every workplace), you get time and a half after
> 40 hours worked in a week. It doesn't say anything about holidays.
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Not only for more than 40 hours in
> one week, but also more than 8 hours in one day. PAT]

While many people believe that, I'm not aware of any such daily requirement.


And that 40 hr/week overtime line is fuzzy, with _plenty_ of exceptions.


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