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Paid twice per month overtime
I am paid on the 15th and 31st. If I work 95
hours say from 1/16 thru 1/31, and make 15
per hour I am paid 15×95 hours. However, my
paystub reads 10x a phony number of hours
that equals the same Dollar amount as 15×95
hours. I’ve never been paid o.t and I’m non-
exempt. Every payday, the paystub is ‘ginned
up’ this way with the hours so that the money
amount balances. What’s really going on here?
Asked on January 14, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Arizona
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
There is no legal reason why they would--or could--alter your pay stub to reflect an inaccurate number of hours, even if the total amount of pay is the same: the law requires that employers keep an accurate count of hours worked by hourly employees. Therefore, it is impossible to say why your employer is doing that: presumably, it makes sense to them, but there is no reason in the law to do it.
As to overtime: overtime is calculated by week, so any week you work more than 40 hours, if you are hourly (and therefore nonexempt: all hourly employees are nonexempt), you must be paid overtime for all time past 40 hours. For example, if you worked 95 hours from 01/16 to 1/31, say you did that as 50 hours one week, 45 hours the next. Then you should have been paid 10 hours of overtime week one, five hours week two. If the split was instead 38 hours week one, 57 hours week two, you would get no overtime for week one, 17 hours overtime for week two. Etc. If not paid overtime when you worked more than 40 hours in a week, you could file a wage and hour complaint with the department of labor--you may be entitled to back overtime.
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