Overtime Law Requirements for Wyoming Businesses

The state of Wyoming doesn’t have its own state law for overtime labor regulations, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth our attention. The state employers, or at least many of them, still have to follow certain other overtime labors laws, namely those from the federal government. These laws are contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act, the FLSA.

The Fair Labor Standards Act covers many other topics, such as minimum wage regulations and child labor laws, but for our purposes, it’s important to consider what the FLSA says about overtime.

In that case, the basic federal rule, and thus the main overtime rule for many employers in Wyoming, is that employers have to pay time and a half to their employees for any time that they clock in over 40 hours in a week.

One of the most significant aspects of the federal overtime laws, which employers and employees in Wyoming should know about, is that there are exceptions to the rule, which means that it’s not mandatory that certain types of workers get overtime pay.

Some of these exceptions include employees considered executive, administrative, or professional in their job function. This includes teachers and principals and other administrative people at schools. Outside sales employees are also exempt, as are certain people in the IT-related fields.

In Wyoming, and in other states where the federal law is the main overtime law, people who work at seasonal amusement and entertainment centers are also exempt from overtime. The list goes on to include people working at small newspapers, fishermen and other seamen, and newspaper delivery people.

Farm workers on smaller farms—or farms that use less than 500 man days of employment in a quarter—are also exempt, along with casual babysitters and people who look after the sick and the old.