Advance Release Opinion – August 17

Connecticut Supreme Court

Williams v. General Nutrition Centers, Inc. – Supreme Court addressed the question of how to determine the overtime pay rate for retail workers who are paid partly on an hourly basis and partly on a commission basis. In a nutshell, you determine the base rate by dividing the the pay for the given week by the “usual” number of hours worked in a week, not the actual number of hours worked in the given week. You then multiply the base rate by 1.5 to determine the overtime rate.