Virginia Overtime Wage Act; overtime compensation for employees, definitions, penalties.

Virginia Overtime Wage Act; penalties. Requiresan employer to compensate its employees who are entitled to overtimecompensation under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act at a ratenot less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rateof pay, defined in the bill, for any hours worked in excess of 40hours in any one workweek. The bill includes provisions for calculatingovertime premiums due to fire protection and law-enforcement employeesby certain public sector employers. The penalties provided by thebill for an employer's failure to pay such overtime wages, includingcivil and criminal penalties, are the same as currently providedfor failing to pay wages generally. The statute of limitations forbringing a claim for a violation of the bill is three years.