Anyone know California labor law?

Factual Questions
1

Specifically, overtime and the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees.

Here’s the situation. I got an e-mail from my manager(it was sent to my workgroup) stating that our group was supposed to put our OT hours as straight time because we were exempt. I thought the law was that if you worked over 40 hours in a week, it was OT by California law. I am not a temp worker, nor am I salaried. I am a wage slave.

So, what is the definition of ‘exempt’ and how would that get them around the ‘over 40 hours is time and a half’ rule?

please help.

2

http://www.dir.ca.gov/IWC/ab60.html

CALIFORNIA LABOR CODE
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.html/lab_table_of_contents.html

3

Oh… and although you receiving an hourly wage are you and your co-workers working under “independent contractor” agreements or not? This can sometimes make make all the difference.

4

We are not independent contractors. We are permanent employees with benefits.

5

A lot of stores in California have in the backroom, the California Labor Law posted on the wall. It’s a big poster.