Can a company change what is OT?

In a few weeks we are going to change our working hours. Current hours are M-F 8hr/day for 40hr work weeks. The new ones are going to be M-Th 9hr/day and every other Friday will be 4 hours to end the payweek and 4 hours to start the new payweek (on the same Friday) and every Friday off. The 9 hours / day M-F will be straight pay, no OT. Is this legal?

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There is something CA calls Alternative Workweek Schedule. This implies a very formal process in which the employer contacts CA-DLSE, holds an election among the workforce, and if the election succeeds and bunch of legal hoops are correctly jumped through, then the CA workday definition gets changed to something other then 8x5. There is more to this then the employer making a unilateral change. Functional both the employees and CA-DLSE have a veto.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/databases/dlsr/DLSR-AWE.html

I see, thanks for the information. There was a voting process that passed through all the non-exempt employees.

useful to answering your question:

http://www.sanfranciscoemploymentlawfirm.com/sanfrancisco-employment-lawyer/2008/8/1/alternative-workweek-schedule-and-overtime.html

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Can a company change what is OT?

In a few weeks we are going to change our working hours. Current hours are M-F 8hr/day for 40hr work weeks. The new ones are going to be M-Th 9hr/day and every other Friday will be 4 hours to end the payweek and 4 hours to start the new payweek (on the same Friday) and every Friday off. The 9 hours / day M-F will be straight pay, no OT. Is this legal?

thank for looking Your company must also register with the DOL as a requirement; such registration will appear on the state web site (eventually:)

http://www.sanfranciscoemploymentlawfirm.com/sanfrancisco-employment-lawyer/2008/8/1/alternative-workweek-schedule-and-overtime.html