When do part-time employees receive overtime pay?
Employees on a part-time appointment (fractional appointment) are paid at their regular hourly rate for each hour above their weekly appointed hours until they reach a total of 40 hours for the week. Hours beyond 40 per week are eligible for pay at time-and-one-half the regular rate. What if an employee works on his/her lunch break? Departmental lunch breaks when unpaid are either 30 or 60 minutes and are scheduled by the department. During this time, the staff member cannot be required to continue to perform job duties unless he or she is paid for the work time. When the lunch period is a paid portion of the regularly scheduled work day, it can’t exceed 20 minutes. In these cases, staff members are expected to eat lunch as time and work schedule permit. If an employee is called back to work, is that time included as time worked for the purposes of calculating overtime? If the employee actually works when being called back, yes. If the employee is sent back home without working, he/she
