Most employees cannot work more than 40 hours per week or 8 hours per day. If they do, their employer must pay them 1.5 times their normal pay.If someone who is nonexempt works 40 hours in a week, they are entitled to 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for every hour worked beyond 40. Hours 812 of a shift should be paid out at 1.5x regular wages. Anything extending beyond 12 hours will be paid out at twice the regular rate. California overtime (OT) laws require non-exempt employees to earn one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay when they work extra hours. According to California overtime laws, nonexempt employees are entitled to earn oneandahalf times their regular pay rate when they work. You must pay employees overtime at least 1.5x the regular rate of pay for all hours over 40 in a given workweek. It banned oppressive child labor and set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and the maximum workweek at 44 hours. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act into law in 1938.