While many states exempt a long list of occupations from the state overtime laws, Missouri makes only one exception to the law. Amusement park or recreation business employees must be paid 1.5 times their usual hourly rate after 52 hours of work. Other employees are entitled to overtime pay of 1.5 times their regular hourly rate after 40 hours in a single work week. Any employees who are exempt from the state minimum wage requirement, like occasional babysitters, are also exempt from the overtime requirement.

An employer may legally require employees to work on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, even if the employee is normally off on those days, under the Missouri mandatory overtime laws. An employer may legally require an employee to work overtime. The employer may require an employee to work 20 or more hours in a single day, or 70 or more hours in a week. In addition, if an employee refuses, the employer may legally discipline or even fire them. However, the employer does have to pay overtime in most cases.

Other states exempt a wide variety of employees from overtime pay including police officers and firefighters, hospitality workers, auto parts clerks, commissioned salespeople, mariners, agricultural workers, and domestic workers, just to name a few.

Some employees that are not covered by the Missouri overtime laws, are ensured overtime pay by the federal overtime laws. The U.S. FairPay law mandates that any salaried employee, who makes less than $455 per week, be entitled to overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours. One the other hand, a number of very highly paid professional IT people are exempt from overtime.

Many employees are covered under collective bargaining agreements that offer special arrangements regarding overtime. Usually, those agreements have been approved by the state. Many police and fire employees, as well as emergency workers, fall into this category.

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