Apply the rules to all employees fairly and consistently. Publish the policy in an employee handbook. Provide advanced notice of when overtime will be needed. Be reasonable when employees have legitimate reasons for being unable to work.
Absent a collective bargaining agreement to the contrary, it is generally accepted that management has the right to require employees to work overtime when business conditions make such scheduling necessary.
The FLSA offers exemptions from mandatory overtime to executive, administrative, professional, and outside sales employees. To qualify for overtime exemptions, employees' job descriptions have to pass the duties tests outlined in the FLSA for each of those roles, and a job title alone doesn't count.
174.1 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), an employee may refuse to work the overtime requested by the employer in order to fulfil any family responsibility set out in subsection 206.6(1).
In South Carolina, there is no state-specific law that limits the number of hours an adult employee can work straight in a single day or week.