How does overtime work on prevailing wage. Per day as well as hours per week?
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Aug 25, 2020
Under Missouri's prevailing wage laws, "the period of eight hours shall be and constitute a legal day's work." However, parties can agree by contract to a longer or shorter period per day. There are certain limitations to this, the statutes have specific industries listed under Mo. Rev. Stat. §290.020 that cannot exceed 8 hours a day; such as mining, chemical manufacturing, etc.
As far as overtime is concerned, this is regulated by §290.505. Under subsection (1) "No employer shall employ any of his employees for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation 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." Thus, overtime is required to be paid if the hours worked in a full work week exceed 40 hours.
For more information, you can visit the Missouri Department of Labor & Industrial Relations website.
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Aug 25, 2020
So say we work five 10 hour days. Would we be paid over time of 18 hrs? (2 hrs per day for the first for and the last dating being over 40 hrs the full 10?