Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

I am a dump truck driver in virginia i get paid 25% of what the truck makes. sometimes i work well over 40 hours a week am i in titled to over time pay some times the truck don't make much should i at least make minimum wage. I also perform other duties including snow removal again working over 40 hours some pay more than others is there a law stating how many rates of pay i can have or the minimum that i can be paid in the performing of these different duties


Asked on 11/05/09, 10:59 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Go to: www.virginia.gov website; click on link to Virginia Department of Labor & Industry, Labor & Employment Division--link to Wage & Hour branch and see what it can tell you. Unless you're a so-called salaried employee, the rules of the U.S. Department of Labor require that all non-salaried, hourly wage employees, must be compensated at a rate of time and one half for all hours worked in excess of 40 in any given week.

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Answered on 11/11/09, 8:58 pm


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