Kentucky Overtime Law

Kentucky state law requires employers to pay nonexempt employees overtime if the employee’s hours of labor a week exceed 40 (KY Rev Stat. Sec. 337.285). Some states have labor laws that require employers to pay their employees overtime pay if the hours worked in day exceed 8 – Kentucky is not one of them. Overtime pay must be compensated in the amount of 1 ½ times the employees regular pay rate per hour, if the employee has worked for more than 40 hours in 1 workweek.

Certain employees who work 7 days in the span of 1 workweek are also entitled to overtime pay at a rate of 1 ½ times their hourly rate per hour. The types of employees that do not qualify for this provision are foremen, supervisors, officers or superintendents. This form of owed overtime pay may be credited against the accumulated hours that exceeded the regular 40 in a workweek.