Employment · Texas
the short answer
Texas has no overtime law of its own, so the right above is the whole of the right. What Texas adds is a way to collect it that costs nothing to start: a wage claim filed with the Texas Workforce Commission, which investigates and orders payment. It has to be filed within 180 days of the date the wages were due.
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everywhere in the u.s.
in this state
governing statute
Tex. Lab. Code § 61.051 (Texas Payday Law)
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free route
The Texas Workforce Commission takes a Payday Law wage claim online or on paper, and it must be received within 180 days of the date the wages were due — the date it arrives is the date that counts. If part of what you are owed falls inside the 180 days and part outside, file for the part inside. There is a limit on how much the Commission may award, and it cannot touch a claim at all once the employer is in bankruptcy.
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which court
Justice Court
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small claims limit
$20,000
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exceptions: The claim has to be for less than this, not up to it, excluding statutory interest and court costs.
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also
The 180 days is the Workforce Commission's deadline, not the federal one. Miss it and you lose the free route, not the claim: the federal case above still has two years, or three if the violation was willful.
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