Right to Receive Overtime Pay

[neoakropolis]

Let me set this up a bit, i work as a gymnastics coach in Arizona and i am a full time employee, i have been working here at my gym for 6 almost 7 years during any of this time i have not once recieved overtime pay because my boss tells me that its not fair for her to pay me overtime if i work 10 hours one week and 50 the next. Thats not how the overtime law reads to me There will be weeks where i work 50 hours one week and 45 the next and no overtime for that either. I Have accumulated 80+ hours of overtime this year. Also is it legal for her to deduct hours off my check because money went missing on my shift? This isnt company policy and it seems she is just being a bitch as there are other problems i face with her. I am the general manager and she wrote me up saying i needed to call her when i took off 2.5 hours this last saturday cause i was feeling sick, so she said if i do it again im fired. I have been there for this business since she opened it with no problems and i really feel like im being stepped all over. Ive only had 38 days off since January that doesnt even equal a whole day a week and i cant change my saturday work day to sunday because ill get fired. What should i do, if i wasnt paid the amount i am, i would have been gone long ago. This doesnt seem worth it to me, maybe she is trying to get me to quit.

[cbg]

Whether or not you are entitled to overtime depends on whether or not your job duties qualify you to be considered an exempt employee or not. Your job title does not tell us whether or not you are exempt; you'd need to define your exact duties and how much independent judgement you are expected to use in performing them.

If you are exempt, there are no circumstances whatsoever in which you are legally entitled to overtime, no matter how many or how few hours you work. If you are non-exempt, then you are entitled to overtime for any hours over 40 in a single work week that you work.

[neoakropolis]

my job duties include but are not limited to... training new employees for coaching gymnastics, scheduling workers for parties when the boss doesnt do it, i also have some light office duties including answering the phone, receiving payments, cleaning the gym (im basicly the janitor), on the weekends i work birthday parties where we monitor and play with children and they use our facility for there enjoyment, i teach gymnastics to school aged children so that involes setting up stations classes, hand spotting (which can be very physical due to im always spotting kids in my classes for backhandsprings and its taking its toll on my shoulders and back) i am also team coach so i am involved in setting up progression for skills and proper drills, evaluating levels, proper placement more spotting running, catching kids from falling etc.. by no means is this an office type job where i sit on my duff all day and look at a comp. As ar as independent judgement i have to determin if a kid is ready to do a skill by themselves, or they need more spotting or more staion work, parites we have to determin if the kid is going to get hurt doing something we need to stop him from doing so otherwise we could be at fault for a lawsuit. :/ hope this helps.