Overtime Payment

Noland77

Does anyone have policy on timely payment of overtime?. Our corporate office has a practice of cutting off any overtime worked after the 15th of December until the first check in January (pay days are the 15th and the 30th.) This is causing a problem for some employees that say we are breaking FLSA regulations.

I read in FLSA that "normally, overtime pay earned in a particular workweek must be paid on the regular pay day for the pay period in which the wages were earned".

I see that the word "normally" tends to give the impression that exceptions are allowed.

What are your practices?

Down_the_Middle

Our practice is consistent with what FLSA requires. Payment on the next regular payday after the overtime is earned.

marc

When you say cutting off OT, do you mean that it is not allowed during that period, or just not paid? If the OT is worked, it should be paid.

Noland77

I am saying that it is delayed. Our Corporate accounting includes the payment in the first check of the new year.

San Francisco

What is their reasoning for delaying the payment for a month. If I read correctly, the first payment in January is the 15th. OT is paid for the week in which it is worked or it is a wiolation. I don't know what exceptions would be made. Maybe someone else knows what "normally" means.

Elizabeth

Kiwi

We pay OT with the regular pay unless the information does not reach payroll in time to be included in that payroll run. If your company normally pays the OT in the week it was earned, why can't/don't they also do it the last pay cycle of the year?x:-/

ray a

We always pay OT in the next check received after it is earned.

Shadowfax

All wages which an emp/er reasonably knows to be due must be paid in the pay period earned, whether time card or time is properly filed or not. You are absolutely in violation of FLSA.