An employer has employees who are paid on an hourly basis. The employer wants to use its employees for additional business activities, but wants to avoid paying overtime. Can the employer use the same employees in two different job capacities, compensated separately, to pay a regular hourly rate instead of overtime? For example, let's say this is a restaurant with a catering business. Can the employer separately hire its restaurant workers to work at a catered event, but not have the hours at the catered event counted toward overtime?

