We were told that we had to work on Satarday, 45 minutes later my team leader came back and told us it was canceled.The next day another employee came to me and stated that the assistant manager had asked her to volunteer to work on one of the machines I operate on Satarday.{ I am a
few years older than her but make the same production or better} There was another employee that was told the same as I. We asked our team leader to find out why that one of us couldn't come in on Satarday and pull the overtime since it was in our department and not hers.She said that the assistant manager told her that she didn't want us to work this weekend
because we had to work overtime the following week and she didn't want us to be over worked and that it was up to her and the manager who they chose to work overtime and who didn't.I have put in a lot of overtime before this with know complaints,have worked at this factory for nine years {this lady has worked there for less than three} I don't think seniority has any pull in this factory at all,matter of fact they told us that they didn't reconized it as being a policy.We were just wondering if she could get away with this legally.We are in the state of Ky.

Nothing in the law says that overtime has to be granted by seniority. Unless you have a bona fide contract that specifies who gets it in what order, the employer is free to choose anyone they like to work overtime, with the only caveat that it can't be based on a discriminatory reason (race, national origin, religion etc.).