Salaried Employee Question

[mae141]

I'm a teacher and it says something in our contract about how we may have to work beyond our contract hours. We get no compensation for it.

[osulori]

Ditto everyone else. If you're salaried it's likely legal (if you're exempt). I'm lucky that my salaried job expects just over 40 hours/week, but at my husband's job (restaurant manager) they are expected to work 55 hours/week and it's usually more than that. Unfortunately that's pretty normal for the restaurant business.

[speyedr]

H is salaried and works way more than 40 hours a week. He is compensated some days with bonuses depending on whether he is in the office or out in the field.

[redpenmama]

This was pretty typical at my last FT job. We were expected to come in on Saturdays and work late nights when contracts were wrapping up/major deadlines were approaching. We were usually compensated with a flex day to take off once the project wrapped up. It wasn't a even trade but it was nice to get a Friday off after putting in some extra time.

This company was well-known for these expectations and paid substantially better than their competitors. So, you sort of knew what you were getting when you worked there.

[halleesmom]

Aug 12, 2015 15:51:17 GMT -5 niq said:

If you make less than $50,400, I think you're non-exempt, or will be once the executive order goes into effect:

www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/obamas-overtime-proposal/

Is there a date this is going into effect yet?  Is it going to apply to all salaried employees or just certain categories?

[SallySparrow]

I had a salaried nursing job once (home hospice). We regularly worked over. No compensation. They ended up changing everyone over to hourly about 6 months after I started.