Pay and Benefits

Unless specifically exempt, employers must pay their employees overtime pay of not less than 1.5 times the employees’ regular rate of pay after 40 hours of work in a seven-day workweek.

You must pay employees for all hours worked in a workweek. In general, “hours worked” includes all time an employee must be on duty, or at the place of work. Normally, time spent in training, traveling from site to site during the day, and doing repair work must be paid. 

Employees generally have the right to be paid at least the federal minimum wage ($7.25) for all hours worked regardless of whether they are paid by the hour, the day, or at a piece rate. Some state laws and local laws provide greater employee protections; employees are entitled to the highest of the local, state, or federal minimum wage that applies to them.  

Unless exempt, employees have a right to be paid the minimum wage and overtime regardless of their immigration status.