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Student Employment Handbook:

Maximum Work Hours & Overtime

Student employees may be employed by more than one Kent State department; however, supervisors should advocate that a student's primary responsibility is to be academically successful.

During the semester, students may not work more than 32 hours per week in one department. In addition, students are not permitted to work during the scheduled time of a class in which they are enrolled.

In the instance that a student's work hours exceed 40 hours in any one work week, the department in which the 40 hour limit was exceeded will be held responsible for the payment of the student's overtime wages. Students will be paid at a rate of one and one-half times the basic hourly rate of that position where the 40 hour limit was exceeded.

It is critical that employers communicate frequently with student employees to monitor the total number of hours the student is working, especially those students working in multiple positions and/or in several departments.

International student employees must comply with work-hour limits set by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).