Ummm...wow

[mike_l]

It appears that they're changing Salaried, Exempt employees to Salaried, Non-Exempt employees. What does that mean? Paid overtime. Not time and a half but half time. So, if I make $20/hour, then I get $10/hour over 40 hours.

Um, wow. I'm shocked. Let's just say that I worked about 57 hours last week so...

Comments

[starwyse]

Ka-ching!

[ingridsummers]

Sounds like you're no longer working more than 40 hours a week to me.

Gods. Management is not too bright sometimes.

[mike_l]

Actually, we will be working overtime. There's no way that our immediate management team would have allowed that to happen at this point of the project that we're working on. I'm guessing that there is some other sort of benefit that the company is going to get out of doing this, i.e. tax breaks, etc.

There is a general feeling that we work our employees entirely too much. This could also be a way to simply compensate them while making it feel like it's okay to pay more for an employee than hire someone else to do the additional work. We'll see how it plays out. This has the potential to work out well on both sides.

[dawningday]

My position is salaried, non-exempt, and it has been a big motivation to pull the occasional all-nighter or twelve hour day. I'm very happy that you'll be in this situation.

A possible impetus for the change is the rising number of lawsuits involving employees classified as exempt who are challenging that. Most notably, Starbucks managers won quite a bit of money in such a lawsuit. There's at least one article floating out on the net about it, but I'm too lazy to Google it up right now.