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Hourly employees at AMC movie theatres do not receive holiday or overtime pay because they are exempt from federal labor law overtime pay mandates. One employee interviewed at an Atlanta theatre noted that he works 80 hours per week, and only receives $10.25 per hour. In the 1930s professionals operated movie theaters, which is why these workers were excluded from the NLRA. However, today movie theatre workers are not professionals. A former AMC employee has started a petition to change AMC’s overtime policies that has received an excess of 6,000 signatures.