Walk It Through: The Overtime Question
A long week at a factory, a tipped server's base pay, the January raise, and a coworker's complaint.
A factory worker puts in well over 40 hours in one workweek and is paid straight time for all of it.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Hourly workers in a factory and a restaurant. Salaried exemptions, retail and service establishment exemptions, and federal overtime law are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.