Veto delays action on overtime: Measure would have applied to workers making $31K or less

The Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill to require overtime pay for some state workers. Now Gov. Stitt has vetoed it. Find out why.


For many parole officers, case managers, maintenance workers and janitors working for the state of Oklahoma, working more than 40 hours a week comes without overtime pay.

Instead, many employees are required to use compensatory time, meaning they must offset each hour of overtime with an hour off within the next six months.

House Bill 2465 aimed to fix this issue by requiring state agencies to pay all employees making $31,000 a year or less for all overtime hours they work.

The bill passed through the Legislature with bipartisan support.

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