I am an ambulance driver and my shifts are often longer than eight hours. Should I be getting overtime pay for the extra hours above eight?

No. There are some special provisions for employees who might work for longer periods at a time due to the nature of their job. An ambulance driver must work more than ten hours for each day of the workweek or more than sixty hours in a workweek to claim overtime hours.

Other occupations that are treated differently are

• employees working in field services (field catering, geophysical exploration, land surveying, logging and lumbering),
• employees engaged in highway and railway construction and brush clearing,
• employees of irrigation districts (other than office workers), and
• employees in the nursery, oil-well servicing, taxicab, and trucking industries.

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