SB 357

Current law requires the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) to

promulgate rules requiring employers to pay employees 1.5 times their regular rates

of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours per week (overtime pay). Those rules,

however, exempt from the overtime pay requirement: 1) employees of the state or

a political subdivision of the state; and 2) employees employed by an amusement or

recreational establishment that does not operate for more than seven months in a

year or that in the preceding year had average receipts for any six months of that year

that were not more than 33 1/3 percent of its average receipts for the other six months

of that year (seasonal amusement or recreational establishment).

This bill prohibits DWD, in promulgating rules regarding overtime pay, from

exempting from the application of the overtime pay requirement an employee who

is employed as a law enforcement officer by an amusement or recreational

establishment, including a seasonal amusement or recreational establishment.