So, Mona and Jon, your immediate fate rests in the hands of your respective states--Nebraska and Arizona--and their labor laws. I am dubious that you will find much help there. Jon, you are deeper in the soup because you are on salary rather than receiving hourly pay. Although that was once a sign of status (to be on salary meant to be "better" than blue collar workers) it has become a curse. Everyone I have met who is working on salary in the past ten years feels they are being exploited. There are laws, like the Fair Labor Standards Act, that regulate overtime for salaried employees, but only those who fit very specific criteria (you can't be a supervisory employee, for example).