Delays in overtime payments

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Hi teachers,The workers have been complaining about delays in overtime payments.1.  Does this mean like wages/ salaries for a regular work time which has not been paid to the workers or the payments for extra hours beyond regular hours the employer owes them?2.  What is overtime pay?Thank you.Tinanam

Avangi · Accepted Answer

tinanam0102The workers have been complaining about delays in overtime payments.

The term is defined by union contract or by state and federal law or by agreement between workers and management.

In many cases, workers are paid time and one half after 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week.
For example, if a man's rate of pay is ten dollars per hour, and he works ten hours on Monday, he would receive one hundred and ten dollars for that work.

There are many variations in these arrangements.

The arrangements differ between hourly workers and salaried workers.

Some jobs may be classified as "exempt" from overtime pay.

Tinanam0102 · Answer

Hi Avangi,

How are you? Thank you for your help.

I work from 9:30 - 6:00 pm regularly six days a week. If I work beyond 6:00pm, I'll get paid for overtime hours I put into.

What's the difference between "delays in payments" and "delays in overtime payments"?

Thanks again

Tinanam

Avangi · Answer

Hmmm, do you receive more per hour on the sixth day? If you work til seven on one day, are you paid at your regular rate, or at a higher rate for the extra hour? It all depends on the agreement you have with the company.

"Delays in payments" would refer to any wages which are not paid on time.
"Delays in overtime payments" would imply that you received your scheduled straight-time wages when due, but for some reason your overtime pay was withheld, or late.

I'm well, thank you.
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Dimsumexpress · Answer

For the pure interest of this topic, I'd like to post this link for reference.

Overtime http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_overtime.htm

In California, the general overtime provisions are that a http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=N#nonexempt employee 18 years of age or older, or any minor employee 16 or 17 years of age who is not required by law to attend school and is not otherwise prohibited by law from engaging in the subject work, shall not be employed more than eight hours in any http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=W#workday or more than 40 hours in any http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=W#workweek unless he or she receives one and one-half times his or her regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any workday and over 40 hours in the workweek. Eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work, and employment beyond eight hours in any workday or more than six days in any workweek is permissible provided the employee is compensated for the overtime at not less than:

One and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight hours up to and including 12 hours in any workday, and for the first eight hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek; and
Double the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in any workday and for all hours worked in excess of eight on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.

This is my understanding based on 25 years of working in manufacturing plants. There are 2 basic classes of employees, generaly speaking.

Hourly- is also called "non-exempt". Depending on the employers, this class of workers may be paid weekly or bi-weekly. They are entitled to O.T. pay beyond the normal 8 hour work day, or 40 hour week. All O.T. by law must be paid on the next pay period. Hourly works don't get bonuses.

Professionals who are paid by monthly salary are called "exempt". In the tech industry, most employees in this environment commonly work between 9-10 hours. Sometimes, when needed, they may have to work even longer hours to get things done. Some companies would paid straight time compensation, some would offer comp time and some just assume it's in duty.

I am not exactly sure what it meant but I thought the phrase "delay in overtime payment" is rather strange because I have never heard that in my life. In the US, if worker are short-changed in O.T. pay, if proven fraudulent, the management get be liable for law suits.

Avangi · Answer

Hi, dimsum.
I think this is probably Hong Kong.

Tinanam0102 · Answer

Hi Dimsumexpress, hi Avangi,

Thank you so much for your help.

Could I know what is "straight-time"? I couldn't find it in the dictionary.

Thanks again.

Tinanam

Avangi · Answer

Straight time is generally understood to be the hours for which you will be paid at your basic hourly rate. It can also mean that rate itself. So it can work as a noun or as an adjective ("straight time pay").

"I only get straight time for working Saturday." This refers to your basic hourly rate.
It also might be used in this case to refer to the actual money you receive for working Saturday.

The expressions might differ from one country to another. The workers may express it one way and the payroll department may express it another.

I have to work Saturday. (reply) Straight time or overtime? . (Will you be receiving overtime pay?)

I'm working for straight time. .

You really have to take one situation at a time, and try to describe exactly what you mean.

Some people would say that when you work "overtime hours" you receive both straight time pay and overtime pay for them.

Tinanam0102 · Answer

Hi Avangi,

Thank you so much for your time.

Good day.

Tinanam

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