Dont you have to work over 40 hours to get over time pay?

Nah.

First of all, labor laws are typically determined at a state level. Since you do not mention where you live/work, it is impossible to provide specific advice.

That said, there are typically provisions in labor laws that trigger overtime pay if a certain number of hours are worked in a certain span of time.

For example, it's not typically legal to schedule someone for a forty-hour shift at regular pay. After a certain number of hours, the worker would be eligible for an overtime pay rate, regardless of how many hours he/she worked during a weekly pay period.

But this is all elementary and not appropriate for discussion on an anonymous bboard like Yahoo Answers.

Contact your state labor board for more details.

States have their own laws for overtime pay.

Most states declare anything over 40 hours in a week is overtime.

However, California law is anything over 8 hours on any day. So a person could work ONE 14 hour day in a week and the pay would be 8 regular, 6 overtime for that day.

Nope not in the real world of labor

in USA Overtime is only after 40 hours

of work within a 7 day period.

only exceptions is if u have a contract

giving u overtime after certain numbers

of hours daily or 24 hour periods.