Orange County Employment Lawyers Blog
Overtime wages are required both under U.S. and California Labor Law. Exact rules may vary depending on the formatting of the worker’s schedule/industry, but for the most part, non-exempt employees over 18 (and those 16 and 17 not required by law to be in school) are to be capped at 8 hours daily/40 hours weekly. If there work hours exceed this amount, their employer is required to pay them time-and-a-half. Yet our Los Angeles employment attorneys see overtime violations time and again involving companies of all sizes in virtually every industry. 
Recently, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a $2.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit filed by workers workers alleging their technology company employer shorted them anywhere from $250 to more than $53,000 each in overtime compensation.
Some 150 workers, all internal sales reps, cited alleged violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (better known as FLSA) in their filing.