Company A sells airtime and infomercials on television. It employs telephone callers at $9 per hour.

Company B, which is owned by the same parent company, does telephone collection calling of its clients’ debtors, paying the same hourly rate of $9.

Employee C works forty hours per week for Company A. He also is employed evenings for a total of ten hours per week for Company B.

Should Company B be required to pay Employee C time-and-one-half for overtime compensation?

See Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Opinion Letter of July 14, 2000, Attachment 1 [2000 WL 1537209].