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Setting Up California Overtime

February 20, 2014

California has some very interesting overtime provisions that go beyond those required by the FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act). Nonexempt employees that work more than 8 hours in any workday or more than 40 hours in any workweek need to be compensated at 1.5 times their regular rate of pay. In addition, employees are to receive 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for the first 8 hours worked on the 7th consecutive day of work in a workweek. This last provision is the one that makes tracking California overtime so difficult. California also requires double the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 12 in any workday and for all hours over 8 on the 7th consecutive day of work in a workweek. The good news is that Virtual TimeClock does all of this complicated overtime tracking for you automatically. Setting up a rule to handle California overtime is pretty easy.

Select Turn Administration On from the File menu and choose Overtime from the Configure menu. Your California overtime rule may look something like this when you're all done.

Setting up California Overtime laws in Virtual TimeClock overtime settings