If exempt, salaried employees are not eligible for over time, is it legal "hypothetically" to be required to work 24hrs / 7days per week? Or is there a law or regulation that prohibits that kind of abuse from employers?
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Salaried employees are paid for the job, not for the hours worked. Furthermore, only certain jobs are eligible for salary exempt status. So the answer is that there is no hours requirement in a salaried position. For example, if you are paid a salary of $2000 per week, this means you get paid that salary whether you finish your work in 10 hours, or whether it takes you 70 hours. If your employer requires you to be at your job for a set number of hours, you don't qualify for salary exempt status.
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Sorry you are SOL when you agree to a job as a salaried individual your life is no longer your own.I know some people who are chained to their jobs, long long hours and very little benefit from the job.
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Thanks for the response. What would stop an employer with a big company to take even more advantage of this law and have one exempt employee as a "supervisor" for every two "full time" non-exempt employees? Wouldn't it be very cost effective to have 1/3 of your employees work 80 hrs per week and pay them for what was supposed to be 40? I read the whole FLSA document on this, and that seems to be the only requirement. An employer needs only pay $455 per week, which works out to $11.37 an hour. But if that exempt employee is required to work 80 hrs, his salary works out to $5.68 an hour, which means that not only is he getting paid less than the new minimum wage, but he's also getting paid less than the non-exempt subordinates that he is supposedly managing, sounds kinda messed up to me. JP~3
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" If your employer requires you to be at your job for a set number of hours, you don't qualify for salary exempt status" I did not know that. Does that mean that an exempt employee who is given a pre-determined 45hr work week in the form of a written schedule doesn't qualify for exempt status? How about an exempt employee that works in a retail type establishment and doesn't have a set goal or objective on a daily basis. An employee in this situation can never finish his duties and go home when he is done with his duties
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" If your employer requires you to be at your job for a set number of hours, you don't qualify for salary exempt status" I did not know that. Does that mean that an exempt employee who is given a pre-determined 45hr work week in the form of a written schedule doesn't qualify for exempt status? How about an exempt employee that works in a retail type establishment and doesn't have a set goal or objective on a daily basis. An employee in this situation can never finish his duties and go home when he is done with his duties
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