Using Makeup Time

Makeup time is an alternative to overtime pay. Makeup time allows an employee to request time off for a personal obligation and make up the time by working more than eight hours on another day without receiving overtime pay.¹ You are not obligated to allow makeup time.

Makeup Time Guidelines

If you choose to allow makeup time, you must comply with the following rules:

• While you can inform an employee of the makeup time option, you cannot encourage or otherwise solicit an employee to request the makeup time.