Is it illegal for an employer not to pay overtime

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Is it illegal for an employer not to pay overtime

I work for a privately owned Verizon
wireless store. We recently started
recieving overtime pay. However I don’t
understand why i didn’t recieve
overtime pay from the beginning of my
time working here. Am I owed wages from
working overtime prior to when they
just started paying me?

Asked on May 30, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Missouri

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 7 years ago | Contributor

If you are not exempt from overtime--and if you are receiving overtime now, evidently you are not--you must paid overtime *whenever* you worked more than 40 hours in a week. If you did not receive overtime when working more than 40 hours in a week, you could bring a wage and hour complaint with your state department of labor for the unpaid overtime; you could potentially receive all the unpaid overtime you should have received for up to the last two years (the law only reaches back two years for unpaid overtime or other wage issues).


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