Overtime Labor Laws in the State of Maryland

Any talk about overtime laws in the 50 states of the Union must include Maryland. Not only is it obviously one of those 50 states, but it is an especially interesting member of the Union when it comes to overtime law.

The Maryland law is standard in many ways at the same time. For instance, like many other state laws and like the federal labor law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Maryland overtime law defines the work week as 40 hours in a seven-day period. Any time spent working over those 40 hours entitles workers to time and a half pay.

However, Maryland diverges from them. For instance, there are some jobs in Maryland that have different work weeks. There are types of farm workers, for example, that have work weeks that last 60 hours in the Maryland law, meaning they won’t get overtime pay until they work more than those 60 hours.

In Maryland law, any time spent on leave, such as those hours on vacation, holiday, out sick, or on any other kind of personal time, do not get counted toward that ultimate total, whether it be 40 hours in a week or 60 hours in a week.

Getting back to the federal law, the Maryland law is similar in other ways too. Some of its exceptions, or exemptions, to the overtime rule are the same. When it comes to salaried workers, such as executive, administrative, and professional types, these workers do not get overtime no matter how many hours they work in a week.

The catch here are those workers considered “hourly-type” workers. These folks usually earn a salary, but are entitled to overtime because they have jobs that are like hourly paid jobs. These include clerical, office type workers, fast-food workers, and health-care workers who wouldn’t be considered professionals in the traditional definition of it.

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