Comments on: Overtime Exemptions

By: joe stanton

joe stanton — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:12:51 +0000

I work for a vending machine company and am being paid 500.00 per wk while training. I was told that is a salary and they are working me 62 hrs per week. Is a person in training Exemp from overtime?

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:35 +0000

I work for a County EMS system and we work 24 on 48 off schedule like fire departments. We provide 911 service but all we do is EMS. We are a 56 hour employee and do not get any overtime. Our employer says we fall under the “guaranteed salary” and we are exempt from overtime, can this be true?

By: Kirk Sanders

Kirk Sanders — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:41:58 +0000

I am a salary non-exempt employee who is paid 40 hours regardless of my work week. My employer states that I am not to receive overtime unless I work phyically work 40 hours if I am only give 30 hours out of the week to work then I am not required OT pay eventhough I receive 40 hours regardless. I am assigned weekend work majority of the time. The company cut my salary 3,000 per year telling us in writing that the will make up the diference in OT.But due to the fact that they will not give OT unless I physically work, the decrease in pay has hurt my take home pay. Is this correct.

Kirk Sanders
Randolph MA

By: Richard Robertson

Richard Robertson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:55:12 +0000

Worker works as a Staff Accountant for a British company in Nevada. Worker has an immediate Supervisor who regulary requires worker to work 50-60 hours per week. Worker is classified as exempt. Worker has a Bachelors degree but is not authorized to make major decisions on behalf of a large company. Would the worker be exempt from overtime pay in this circumstance?

By: Robert Davis

Robert Davis — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:21:38 +0000

I am a full time employee at a local retail store. I am “told” that I must work over my scheduled shift to finish certain projects and in doing so I must take another lunch 29 minutes after the original shit begins. I am then required to take that overtime off so I won’t go over the original 40 hrs. scheduled. Can they force me to work that overtime and should they make me leave early so they don’t have to pay me that overtime?

By: j kennedy

j kennedy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:09:45 +0000

For the last seven years i have been able to take a paid holiday and work overtime in the same week. Now the employer is saying if we take a holiday and come in on the fourth day and work overtime it will be caculated as straight time. this also would include forced overtime. For example I took a paid holiday on Monday, worked tuesday through Friday, then was forced to work friday evening due to lack of staff. the company can pay me straight time for that evening shift. Is this legal?

By: vince

vince — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:50:41 +0000

I am an exempt employee working in a QC lab. Our work is highly standardized which I thought excluded us from being considered exempt. We have OT built into our schedule, 36 hrs 1 week & 48 the next. We have always been paid time & a half for this, but now they are talking about making it straight time. Can they do this if it is your regular schedule and you have no choice but to work it?

By: Jason A. Pomar

Jason A. Pomar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:02:12 +0000

I have 33 weeks of paychecks where I was paid straight time for working as as a manager for a company. I was an hourly wage earner and averaged 51-52 hrs per week. Am I entitled to unpaid wages?