Indiana overtime pay law is located in the Indiana Code in the sections below. Administrative rules are not
covered here.
Sec. 22-2-2-4
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(j) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall employ any employee for a workweek longer than
forty (40) hours unless the employee receives compensation for employment in excess of the hours above specified
at a rate not less than one and one-half (1.5) times the regular rate at which he is employed.
(k) For purposes of this section the following apply:
(1) "Overtime compensation" means the compensation required by subsection (j).
(2) "Compensatory time" and "compensatory time off" mean hours during which an employee is
not working, which are not counted as hours worked during the applicable workweek or other work period for purposes
of overtime compensation, and for which the employee is compensated at the employee's regular rate.
(3) "Regular rate" means the rate at which an employee is employed is considered to include all remuneration
for employment paid to, or on behalf of, the employee, but is not considered to include the following:
(A) Sums paid as gifts, payments in the nature of gifts made at Christmas time or on other special occasions,
as a reward for service, the amounts of which are not measured by or dependent on hours worked, production, or
efficiency.
(B) Payments made for occasional periods when no work is performed due to vacation, holiday, illness, failure of
the employer to provide sufficient work, or other similar cause, reasonable payments for traveling expenses, or
other expenses, incurred by an employee in the furtherance of his employer's interests and properly reimbursable
by the employer, and other similar payments to an employee which are not made as compensation for his hours of
employment.
(C) Sums paid in recognition of services performed during a given period if:
(i) both the fact that payment is to be made and the amount of the payment are determined at the sole discretion
of the employer at or near the end of the period and not pursuant to any prior contract, agreement, or promise
causing the employee to expect the payments regularly;
(ii) the payments are made pursuant to a bona fide profit sharing plan or trust or bona fide thrift or savings
plan, meeting the requirements of the administrator set forth in appropriately issued regulations, having due regard
among other relevant factors, to the extent to which the amounts paid to the employee are determined without regard
to hours of work, production, or efficiency; or
(iii) the payments are talent fees paid to performers, including announcers, on radio and television programs.
(D) Contributions irrevocably made by an employer to a trustee or third person pursuant to a bona fide plan
for providing old age, retirement, life, accident, or health insurance or similar benefits for employees.
(E) Extra compensation provided by a premium rate paid for certain hours worked by the employee in any day or workweek
because those hours are hours worked in excess of eight (8) in a day or in excess of the maximum workweek applicable
to the employee under subsection (j) or in excess of the employee's normal working hours or regular working hours,
as the case may be.
(F) Extra compensation provided by a premium rate paid for work by the employee on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays,
or regular days of rest, or on the sixth or seventh day of the workweek, where the premium rate is not less than
one and one-half (1.5) times the rate established in good faith for like work performed in nonovertime hours on
other days.
(G) Extra compensation provided by a premium rate paid to the employee, in pursuance of an applicable employment
contract or collective bargaining agreement, for work outside of the hours established in good faith by the contract
or agreement as the basic, normal, or regular workday (not exceeding eight hours) or workweek (not exceeding the
maximum workweek applicable to the employee under subsection (j)) where the premium rate is not less than one and
one-half (1.5) times the rate established in good faith by the contract or agreement for like work performed during
the workday or workweek.
(l) No employer shall be considered to have violated subsection (j) by employing any employee for a workweek
in excess of that specified in subsection (j) without paying the compensation for overtime employment prescribed
therein if the employee is so employed:
(1) in pursuance of an agreement, made as a result of collective bargaining by representatives of employees
certified as bona fide by the National Labor Relations Board, which provides that no employee shall be employed
more than one thousand forty (1,040) hours during any period of twenty-six (26) consecutive weeks; or
(2) in pursuance of an agreement, made as a result of collective bargaining by representatives of employees certified
as bona fide by the National Labor Relations Board, which provides that during a specified period of fifty-two
(52) consecutive weeks the employee shall be employed not more than two thousand two hundred forty (2,240) hours
and shall be guaranteed not less than one thousand eight hundred forty (1,840) hours (or not less than forty-six
(46) weeks at the normal number of hours worked per week, but not less than thirty (30) hours per week) and not
more than two thousand eighty (2,080) hours of employment for which the employee shall receive compensation for
all hours guaranteed or worked at rates not less than those applicable under the agreement to the work performed
and for all hours in excess of the guaranty which are also in excess of the maximum workweek applicable to the
employee under subsection (j) or two thousand eighty (2,080) in that period at rates not less than one and one-half
(1.5) times the regular rate at which the employee is employed.
(m) No employer shall be considered to have violated subsection (j) by employing any employee for a workweek
in excess of the maximum workweek applicable to the employee under subsection (j) if the employee is employed pursuant
to a bona fide individual contract, or pursuant to an agreement made as a result of collective bargaining by representatives
of employees, if the duties of the employee necessitate irregular hours of work, and the contract or agreement
includes the following:
(1) Specifies a regular rate of pay of not less than the minimum hourly rate provided in subsections (c), (f),
(g), and (i) (whichever is applicable) and compensation at not less than one and one-half (1.5) times that rate
for all hours worked in excess of the maximum workweek.
(2) Provides a weekly guaranty of pay for not more than sixty hours based on the rates so specified.
(n) No employer shall be considered to have violated subsection (j) by employing any employee for a workweek
in excess of the maximum workweek applicable to the employee under that subsection if, pursuant to an agreement
or understanding arrived at between the employer and the employee before performance of the work, the amount paid
to the employee for the number of hours worked by him in the workweek in excess of the maximum workweek applicable
to the employee under that subsection:
(1) in the case of an employee employed at piece rates, is computed at piece rates not less than one and one-half
(1.5) times the bona fide piece rates; applicable to the same work when performed during nonovertime hours;
(2) in the case of an employee performing two (2) or more kinds of work for which different hourly or piece rates
have been established, is computed at rates not less than one and one-half (1.5) times those bona fide rates; applicable
to the same work when performed during nonovertime hours; or
(3) is computed at a rate not less than one and one-half (1.5) times the rate established by the agreement or understanding
as the basic rate to be used in computing overtime compensation thereunder, provided that the rate so established
shall be substantially equivalent to the average hourly earnings of the employee, exclusive of overtime premiums,
in the particular work over a representative period of time;
and if the employee's average hourly earnings for the workweek exclusive of payments described in this section
are not less than the minimum hourly rate required by applicable law, and extra overtime compensation is properly
computed and paid on other forms of additional pay required to be included in computing the regular rate.
(o) Extra compensation paid as described in this section shall be creditable toward overtime compensation payable
pursuant to this section.
(p) No employer shall be considered to have violated subsection (j) by employing any employee of a retail or service
establishment for a workweek in excess of the applicable workweek specified therein, if:
(1) the regular rate of pay of the employee is in excess of one and one-half (1.5) times the minimum hourly
rate applicable to the employee under section 2 of this chapter; and
(2) more than half of the employee's compensation for a representative period (not less than one (1) month) represents
commissions on goods or services.
In determining the proportion of compensation representing commissions, all earnings resulting from the application
of a bona fide commission rate shall be considered commissions on goods or services without regard to whether the
computed commissions exceed the draw or guarantee.
(q) No employer engaged in the operation of a hospital or an establishment which is an institution primarily
engaged in the care of the sick, the aged, or the mentally ill or defective who reside on the premises shall be
considered to have violated subsection (j) if, pursuant to an agreement or understanding arrived at between the
employer and the employee before performance of the work, a work period of fourteen (14) consecutive days is accepted
in lieu of the workweek of seven (7) consecutive days for purposes of overtime computation and if, for his employment
in excess of eight (8) hours in any workday and in excess of eighty (80) hours in that fourteen (14) day period,
the employee receives compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half (1.5) times the regular rate at which
the employee is employed.
(r) No employer shall employ any employee in domestic service in one (1) or more households for a workweek longer
than forty (40) hours unless the employee receives compensation for that employment in accordance with subsection
(j).
(s) In the case of an employee of an employer engaged in the business of operating a street, suburban or interurban
electric railway, or local trolley or motorbus carrier (regardless of whether or not the railway or carrier is
public or private or operated for profit or not for profit), in determining the hours of employment of such an
employee to which the rate prescribed by subsection (j) applies there shall be excluded the hours the employee
was employed in charter activities by the employer if both of the following apply:
(1) The employee's employment in the charter activities was pursuant to an agreement or understanding with the
employer arrived at before engaging in that employment.
(2) If employment in the charter activities is not part of the employee's regular employment.
(t) Any employer may employ any employee for a period or periods of not more than ten (10) hours in the aggregate
in any workweek in excess of the maximum workweek specified in subsection (j) without paying the compensation for
overtime employment prescribed in subsection (j), if during that period or periods the employee is receiving remedial
education that:
(1) is provided to employees who lack a high school diploma or educational attainment at the eighth grade level;
(2) is designed to provide reading and other basic skills at an eighth grade level or below; and
(3) does not include job specific training.
(u) Subsection (j) does not apply to an employee of a motion picture theater.
(v) Subsection (j) does not apply to an employee of a seasonal amusement or recreational establishment, an organized
camp, or a religious or nonprofit educational conference center that is exempt under the federal Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. 213).