Nebraska State Overtime Regulatory Requirements

Nebraska has no overtime labor law of its own. So where does this leave us? What can we talk about if the state we want to discuss doesn’t have the law we need to talk about. Well, technically Nebraska does have overtime regulations—those passed down by the federal government. So we can talk about those.

The federal overtime laws can be found in the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA for short. The Fair Labor Standards Act also covers minimum wage issues, as well as issues of child labor, but for the intent of this blog at the moment, we will only focus on the parts of the Fair Labor Standards Act that deal with overtime.

These overtime labor laws basically are only laws for certain businesses. For instance, your local, mom and pop type business in Nebraska—with only one store in one town, for example—is not held to the standards of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

Instead, the Fair Labor Standards Act only covers larger businesses. They must meet certain qualifications to be held to the Fair Labor Standards Act. First, the businesses must be interstate businesses, meaning they have offices in other states than Nebraska, or they conduct business by selling or offering services or goods to customers in other states than Nebraska. The businesses must also bring in a certain amount of revenue—in this case, it’s more than $500,000 per year.

Certain other types of businesses are included in the Fair Labor Standards Act, too, regardless of their size. Hospitals, schools of all types, and government organizations are all included in the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations for overtime.

And the basic tenant of the Fair Labor Standards Act? It is that employees of these companies who work more than 40 hours in a work week have to get paid time and a half their normal rate for every minute over those 40 hours.