Overtime
Known as the Wage and Hour Act
The act spans §§ 95–95 (28 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Morales v. Showell Farms, Inc. (1995)
Most recently applied in Lima v. MH & WH, LLC (March 2019)
1973, c. 685, s. 1; 1979, c. 839, s. 1; 1991, c. 330, s. 2; c. 492, s. 1; 2017-185, s. 3(c).
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) Every employer shall pay each employee who works longer than 40 hours in any workweek at a rate of not less than time and one half of the regular rate of pay of the employee for those hours in excess of 40 per week.
(b) Repealed by Session Laws 1991, c. 330, s. 2, effective June 19, 1991.
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.