Pharmacists: exemption from overtime regulations.

Existing law generally requires an employee to be paid an overtime rate of compensation for work in excess of 8 hours per day. Existing wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission exempt persons employed in an administrative, executive, or professional capacity from that requirement, among other things. Existing law provides that a person employed in the practice of pharmacy is not exempt from coverage under any provision of the wage orders of the commission, unless he or she individually meets the criteria established for exemption as executive or administrative employees. Existing law also provides that no person employed in the practice of pharmacy may be subject to any exemption from coverage under the orders of the commission established for professional employees. This bill would provide that a person employed in the practice of pharmacy, who is participating in a postgraduate training program, as specified, who is in a field relating to the practice of pharmacy or pharmacy research, or who is performing certain procedures or functions, is not subject to coverage under any provision of the orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission.