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At my employer, virtually all of the personnel I know of are salaried exempt. The standard work week is 45 hours with many personnel working considerably more. No one receives overtime pay nor do we get comp time if we do work beyond the standard 45 hours.
Our team is a support team and we work a defined schedule and have no flexibility in coming in late or leaving early, even with appropriate notice, if we need to. If we need to come in late/leave early, we must take PTO. If I need to take a longer lunch, I can't. Lunches are defined in three, one hour blocks, though we can decide among ourselves who takes which slot.
The role functions like an entirely hourly clock punching position. How would you feel about being salaried exempt under these conditions?
what's the point in being salaried if you can't set own hours? Sure I know you have to show up to work, but if you are late a hour, you stay a hour; or in early, out early....
Plus I'm not used to the idea that you don't get overtime, I got it as an exempted employee, I can work 42 hours and won't get overtime, but if I work more than 42, I get it all as overtime, IE 5 hours for working 45 hours. The 2 hours is plus or minus, I could leave early and work 38 hours/week too if I needed too.
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Read the FLSA requirements for exempt, and if you don't think you meet them, file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. Otherwise, there's nothing you can do about it other than leave and work somewhere else.
What you've described is very common. Yeah, sometimes it seems like if you worked a minimum wage hourly job, with the same hours, you'd make more money at the minimum wage job. Except for certain things, workplaces can have whatever rules they want -- they can say you have to be there certain hours, they can say you have to take lunch at a certain time, they can say how long lunch is, and they can expect that you'll be there working for many hours. If you don't like it, you're free to leave. Yeah it sucks, and that's why labor unions arose and gave us things like the weekend. Sadly, they're being dismantled.
At my employer, virtually all of the personnel I know of are salaried exempt. The standard work week is 45 hours with many personnel working considerably more. No one receives overtime pay nor do we get comp time if we do work beyond the standard 45 hours.
Our team is a support team and we work a defined schedule and have no flexibility in coming in late or leaving early, even with appropriate notice, if we need to. If we need to come in late/leave early, we must take PTO. If I need to take a longer lunch, I can't. Lunches are defined in three, one hour blocks, though we can decide among ourselves who takes which slot.
The role functions like an entirely hourly clock punching position. How would you feel about being salaried exempt under these conditions?
Read the FLSA requirements for exempt, and if you don't think you meet them, file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. Otherwise, there's nothing you can do about it other than leave and work somewhere else.
Overtime exemption is nothing but corporate exploitation and should be banned forthwith.
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