I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and the topic of overtime came up. She was stunned that people who are paid a salary could and often are still entitled to overtime compensation. As we previously wrote in this blog, an employer cannot avoid paying overtime compensation simply by paying its employees a salary rather than on an hourly basis. See our previous post here.
A recent case we filed against Beer Capitol Distributing is a prime example of this often misunderstood principle.
Just because you are paid a salary, it does not follow that you should not still receive overtime compensation.
