N.J.A.C. 4A:3-5.1 General provisions
N.J.A.C. 4A:3-5.1, General provisions. In local service, overtime compensation shall be paid pursuant to standards prepared and administered by the appointing authority in accordance with the Fai Full text with cited by 1 other rule.
Current through New Jersey Register, Vol. 58 No. 14, July 20, 2026. Reviewed as of July 26, 2026.
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In plain language
The split here is total. In local service this subchapter does not set overtime at all: each appointing authority prepares and administers its own standards, and the only external constraint named is the Fair Labor Standards Act. Everything that follows, the nine remaining sections and the appendix chart, applies to State service, where overtime for employees in the career, senior executive and unclassified services is paid according to these rules. A local employee reading the workweek code definitions or the coverage matrix in this subchapter is reading a State compensation scheme rather than their own entitlement. The rules assigning a State title its workweek designation in the first place sit in a different chapter.
Written by the NJ Civil Service Navigator editorial team from the text of N.J.A.C. 4A:3-5.1. It is a description of the rule, not the rule itself, and not legal advice.
(a) In local service, overtime compensation shall be paid pursuant to standards prepared and administered by the appointing authority in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. 201 et seq. #
(b) In State service, overtime compensation for employees in the career, senior executive and unclassified services shall be paid pursuant to this subchapter. See chart (Appendix A) at the end of this subchapter which outlines these overtime provisions. #
(c) See N.J.A.C. 4A:6-2 for State service hours of work and workweek designation rules. #
Rules that point here
Elsewhere in Overtime Compensation
- 4A:3-5.2 Definitions: State service
- 4A:3-5.3 40 hours or less in a workweek: State service
- 4A:3-5.4 Criteria for exemption from Federal Fair Labor Standards Act: State service
- 4A:3-5.5 Federal fair labor standards applicable to more than 40 hours in a workweek for 35, 40 and NE titles: State service
- 4A:3-5.6 Federal fair labor standards applicable to more than 40 hours in a workweek for 3E, 4E, NL, and N4 titles: State service
- 4A:3-5.7 Special circumstances: State service
- 4A:3-5.8 Holiday pay: State service
- 4A:3-5.9 Appointing authority responsibilities: State service
- 4A:3-5.10 Appeal procedures: State service