Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Why would you get paid overtime if you are a salaried exempt worker? Sounds like you are a non-exempt worker whose "salary" is just the calculation of your full-time regular-time wages, otherwise you would not get overtime at all. As for the rights of workers who are entitled to overtime, to be paid overtime in any particular paycheck, the employer is entitled to establish a payroll submission cut-off. If the correct recorded time is not submitted by the employee by the cut off, the employer cannot skip paying them entirely, but they are entitled to pay them nothing more than their normal average pay, and then adjust it up or down in the next pay period based on actual time entries. In fact many employers have a policy that overtime is ALWAYS paid two checks out, to avoid the hassles of dealing with employees who can't meet deadlines but then expect to be paid anyway.