Overtime Request
An overtime request is permission, asked in advance, to work past the scheduled hours. It is not a promise the employer will pay a premium if the law or the handbook does not require it, and it is not a substitute for recording the hours you actually worked. Some employees are exempt from overtime. If you are exempt, this form is only a scheduling note. If you are not, the timesheet still has to show the hours. Do not work the extra time until a supervisor signs, unless the work was an emergency you describe here.
For a non-exempt employee, or any employee whose handbook requires pre-approval. When: before the extra hours, except for an emergency you explain.
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Overtime Request
Employee
Time
Signature
Employee signature
Supervisor signature
Date
Why this form exists, and what it will not do
Overtime Request is for a non-exempt employee, or any employee whose handbook requires pre-approval. The moment to use it: before the extra hours, except for an emergency you explain. It sits in the Employment group on Papero. Applications, time records, leave requests, and letters a private employer can read.
Fill it in this browser. Papero does not create an account, does not upload the answers, and does not keep a copy after you close the tab. When the preview looks right, print it or download a PDF. The PDF is built on your device. A blank download leaves the lines empty so someone else can fill them by hand.
Work through the page in order. The Employee section asks for Name, Job. The Time section asks for Date of the extra work, Extra hours requested, Reason, Emergency already worked.
Name. Your name. Job. Title. Date of the extra work. The day.
Extra hours requested. A number. Reason. The work that cannot wait. Emergency already worked. Yes only if you could not ask first.
People send this back, or refuse it, for ordinary reasons. You worked first and asked second, against a written rule. The reason is blank. The hours are a guess. Read the finished page once as if you were the person receiving it. If a line would make you call back, fill that line.
Sign on the Employee signature and Supervisor signature and Date line. A typed name in the signature spot is weaker than ink on a printed page. Date it the day you sign, not the day you hope the other person signs.
What this page cannot do: This is not an I-9, a W-4, a W-9, or a state new-hire form. Those come from the employer and from the agency. Private employment is generally at-will, with a well-known limit in Montana for employees past probation. A letter here does not create a job, end a job, or set the deadline for a final paycheck. That deadline is state law. Papero is not a law firm, not a government agency, and not the office that will accept or reject the paper.
State note for your state. Overtime Request does not contain your state's required clauses, font size, language, or filing fee. Counties and cities inside your state sometimes add their own rule on top of the state. Before you rely on this for a lease, a school, a court, a bank, or an agency, compare it with the form that office publishes. If the office has no form, this template is a clear record of what you wrote and what you signed on this date.
After you print, use dark ink. Write "not applicable" on a line that does not apply, so a clerk does not treat a blank as a missing fact. Initial a correction beside the line. Do not cover a dollar amount with correction fluid. Each person who has a signature line signs their own name. One person cannot sign for another unless a statutory power of attorney, on the form that office accepts, already says so. Give the other party a copy the same day. On your copy, note the date and whether you handed it over, mailed it, or uploaded it to their portal. Attach copies of supporting papers, not your only original, unless the office demanded the original. Do not attach a Social Security card, a passport image, or a bank statement unless the recipient told you to, and then only in person or through their secure portal. Email is a common way those images are stolen. If the recipient is a government office, stop and use the form on that office's own site. Papero does not transmit this page, does not notarize it, and does not store it.
Keep a copy. Give the other party a copy. If you later change a fact, fill the form again and date the new copy. Do not scribble a second story into the margin of a page someone already signed. Write the date you handed it over, and how, on your own copy.
Before you rely on it
- You worked first and asked second, against a written rule.
- The reason is blank.
- The hours are a guess.
This is not an I-9, a W-4, a W-9, or a state new-hire form. Those come from the employer and from the agency. Private employment is generally at-will, with a well-known limit in Montana for employees past probation. A letter here does not create a job, end a job, or set the deadline for a final paycheck. That deadline is state law.
How to fill and print it
- Fill the lines. Type into the Overtime Request in this browser. Write "not applicable" on a line that does not apply. What you type stays in this tab and is not uploaded.
- Check the preview. The boxed preview is the page that prints. Read it once as the person who will receive the paper.
- Print or download. Use Print, or download a filled PDF or a blank PDF. The file is built on your device.
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Questions
What is a Overtime Request used for?
An overtime request is permission, asked in advance, to work past the scheduled hours.
Who should use this Overtime Request?
It is for a non-exempt employee, or any employee whose handbook requires pre-approval. Use it when before the extra hours, except for an emergency you explain.
Does this Overtime Request need a notary?
No. This Overtime Request has no notary block. Sign the Employee signature, Supervisor signature, Date line in ink on the printed page if you are handing it to someone.
Will a Overtime Request from Papero be accepted?
You worked first and asked second, against a written rule. This is not an I-9, a W-4, a W-9, or a state new-hire form. Those come from the employer and from the agency. Private employment is generally at-will, with a well-known limit in Montana for employees past probation. A letter here does not create a job, end a job, or set the deadline for a final paycheck. That deadline is state law.
What gets a Overtime Request sent back?
You worked first and asked second, against a written rule. The reason is blank. The hours are a guess.