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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 337.050: Time and a half for work done on seventh day of week -- Exceptions.

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  1. KRS Chapter 337

(1) Any employer who permits any employee to work seven (7) days in any one (1)

workweek shall pay him at the rate of time and a half for the time worked on the

seventh day. For the purposes of this subsection, the term "workweek" shall mean a

calendar week or any other period of seven (7) consecutive days adopted by the

employer as the workweek with the intention that the same shall be permanent and

without the intention to evade the overtime provision set out herein.

(2) (a) Subsection (1) shall not apply in any case in which the employee is not

permitted to work more than forty (40) hours during the workweek. In that

case the employer may credit against the overtime payable under this section

any overtime paid by him to the employees for the same hours under the

requirements of any other law or contract.

(b) Subsection (1) shall not apply to telephone exchanges having less than five

hundred (500) subscribers, nor to stenographers, bookkeepers, or technical

assistants of professions such as doctors, accountants , lawyers, and other

professions licensed under the laws of this state, nor to any employees subject

to the Federal Railway Labor Act and seamen or persons engaged in operating

boats or other water transportation facilities upon navigable streams, nor to

persons engaged in icing railroad cars, nor to common carriers under the

supervision of the Department of Vehicle Regulation.

(3) "Employee" as used in subsection (1) does not include any officer, superintendent,

foreman, or supervisor whose duties are prin cipally limited to directing or

supervising other employees.

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