Business Council Airs Overtime Worry

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The Orange County Business Council, lamenting an effort by some state legislators to reinstate the requirement that hourly workers receive overtime pay for any work over eight hours a day, says the measure would make it hard for companies to allow workers to make up for time lost because of medical appointments or other personal or family matters.

Since the rule was changed last year, California employers have been able to hold off on overtime pay until a worker completes 40 hours in a single week--whether it takes two days or six for the first 40 hours to pile up.