State and federal law requires your employer to pay you overtime when: 

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• You work in excess of 40 hours in a week

• You work any fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours-seven consecutive 24-hour periods.

• The employer must pay nonexempt employees at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay

• the FLSA does not require overtime pay for work on weekends, holidays, or regular days of rest, unless overtime is worked on such days.

• Hours worked ordinarily include all the time during which an employee is required to be on the employer’s premises, on duty, or at a prescribed workplace.

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Federal overtime law allows for unpaid overtime to be collected up to two years from the date the pay was earned, and up to three years if the employer was consciously and intentionally violating the overtime law. 

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Additionally, Pennsylvania state law makes it illegal to:  

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• Pay someone below minimum wage. 

• Not pay a qualifying employee overtime pay equal to 1.5x their regular hourly pay for any hours worked over 40 in a week

• Retaliate against an employee for asking for overtime pay or filing a claim

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Pennsylvania overtime law allows for unpaid overtime to be collected up to three years from the date the pay was earned.