Employment · Kentucky
the short answer
On top of the federal 40-hour week, Kentucky has a seventh-day overtime law. If your employer lets you work all seven days of one workweek, the hours you work on that seventh day are owed at time and a half — whether or not the week reached 40 hours.
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everywhere in the u.s.
in this state
free route
The Division of Wages and Hours administers and enforces Kentucky's minimum wage, overtime, wage payment, lunch and rest period, payroll deduction and wage discrimination laws, and it investigates employee complaints about them. Complaints go in through the Cabinet's own online complaint system.
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which court
Small claims division of the District Court
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small claims limit
$2,500
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exceptions: The lowest limit in the country, and it has not moved since 1976. Libel, slander, alienation of affections, malicious prosecution and abuse of process cannot be heard here at any amount. Above $2,500 the case goes to the District Court itself, not nowhere.
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also
The seventh-day law is separate from the minimum wage law, which is why it is missed. It turns on working all seven days, so a week of six long days does not reach it however many hours it ran to.
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