                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OVERTIME COMPENSATION RATE (§ 9.1-701)

A. Employers shall pay fire protection or law-enforcement employees overtime
compensation or leave, as under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. &#xA7;
207 (o), at a rate of not less than one and one-half times the employee&#8217;s
regular rate of pay for all hours of work between the statutory maximum
permitted under 29 U.S.C. &#xA7; 207 (k) and the hours for which an employee
receives his salary, or if paid on an hourly basis, the hours for which the
employee receives hourly compensation. A fire protection or law-enforcement
employee who is paid on an hourly basis shall have paid leave counted as hours
of work in an amount no greater than the numbers of hours counted for other fire
protection or law-enforcement employees working the same schedule who are paid
on a salaried basis in that jurisdiction.

B. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the right of any
employer to provide overtime compensation to fire protection or law-enforcement
employees in an amount that exceeds the amounts required by this section.

C. The provisions of this section pertaining to law-enforcement employees shall
only apply to employers of 100 or more law-enforcement employees.

HISTORY: 2001, c. 768, § 2.1-116.9:8; 2005, c. 732.