11
2016
What if a Nonexempt Employee Works Overtime Performing Multiple Jobs with Different Pay rates?
If you have nonexempt employees who work more than 40 hours in a single workweek performing two or more different jobs with different pay rates, you need to make sure that you are paying them properly. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) allows two different approaches to computing the rate for which overtime is paid:
1) The weighted average, which is the default approach outlined in 29 C.F.R. 778.115; or
2) The established rate associated with the job that caused the overtime to occur,