This is real with hourly too.
The Staggers act allowed truckers not to pay OT after 40.
In the 80’s I remember NJ addressing this with a mis-understood and therefore toothless law.
As long as the base pay was more than 1.5 times the existing mimimum wage truckers were still exempt from paying overtime with some coversion factor for CPM.
My last place, 40 years later, was paying OT after 50 but guaranteed 50 all LTL in the North NJ/ NYC area.
The drivers barganed for a change to 45 so they took a cut in base pay on the few slow weeks every year to get OT 5 hours quicker on most weeks.
Do other states have similar laws?
