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Summary of differences between federal and state regulations
An employer who requires or permits an employee to work overtime is generally required to pay the employee premium pay for such overtime work. Employees covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must receive overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek of at least one and one-half times their regular rates of pay. The FLSA does not require overtime pay for work on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, or regular days of rest.
Extra pay for working weekends or nights is a matter of agreement between the employer and the employee (or the employee's representative). The FLSA does not require extra pay for weekend or night work or double time pay.
Connecticut employees will be paid one and one-half times their regular rate for time worked in excess of 40 hours. However, a state wage order for employees in the restaurant and hotel industries requires overtime at 1.5 times the minimum wage for hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of a workweek. State wage orders must be posted, and are available from the Connecticut Department of Labor.
State
Contact
Connecticut Department of Labor, Wage and Workplace Standards Division
Regulations
chapter 558 - Wages
sec. 31-76c. Length of workweek. No employer, except as otherwise provided herein, shall employ any of his employees for a workweek longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives remuneration for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.
Federal
Contact
The Department of Labor is the federal agency that monitors hours worked.
Regulations
U.S. labor regulations for hours worked can be found in CFR 29 Part 785.