Exempt means that the employee is considered to be on salary.
Whether or not they work 20 hour or 90 hours a week makes no matter. They are paid the same, regardless. No time sheets to fill out, no overtime to pay.
Titling them a manager, director, or professional, entitles them to a salary as opposed to an hourly wage.
There are pros and cons to both.
Grooming manager or a Public school teacher?
assistant TO the regional manager
The Office reference
Our state passed legislation a few years ago that increased the threshold for the salaried employee designation. It’s now at $62K per year and in a few years, it will be $85K. We are a medium sized business and many of our managers who have true management responsibilities have been converted to hourly employees. Most of these managers absolutely hate this change. They now have to punch a time clock and have no flexibility when it comes to changing their schedules. They used to be able to work unusual hours to complete their work, but now must work a conventional schedule to avoid overtime. Most liked the old system much better and bitch about the State making this change. However, we live in a blue state and most of these employees voted for the Dems who passed this legislation. When they complain I point out to them that they voted for the people who passed this nanny state legislation.
If I was a barber I’d turn down the title of grooming manager.
Just saying.
The simple term for this is “wage theft.” If you’re not directly supervising someone else, you should not be considered an exempt employee. IT workers lose a fortune in overtime because of this.
Just for info, all federal GS employees are hourly. That’s about 90% of them. Tells you all you need to know.
General Motors used to have a vice president of headrests.
Inquisitive people would ask if it was drivers side or passenger side.
(old joke)
It’s worse than that. My son was given a fake “manager” title and his pay was cut because he was expected to work 3-4 hour overtime each day because he was salaried. He quit that job after a couple of months of being abused.
Wasn’t it under Obama that the rules changed as to exempt and non-exempt employees? I was exempt and then designated as non-exempt, then back again to exempt all in the space of a a couple of years. I had gotten a raise and promotion and went to exempt, then the rules changed and I was back to non-exempt, then suddenly I was exempt again (Or it might have been vice-versa). It was really confusing since it happened at the end of the year and I went six weeks without a paycheck during one point as the rules change went in place. Management tried to change our titles, job duties, and pay scale as much as possible to prevent some from being subject to the new rules.
I remember the high-dollar paid people at my place of employment who weren’t effected by the changes took up a collection and paid all of us who were going without a paycheck right at Christmas a “donation” of about $500 bucks each in order to help us make the transition. It was right nice of them to recognize the stress the changes were causing us.
This is news?
On what planet is this worthy of resesrch?
Children.
And Ed Norton was an “Underground Engineer”.
In the eighties we saw often saw this in banks.
Used to call them Vice President of the Left Side of the Building...
The company I work for made the program directors Vice Presidents of Programming. Which created the need for Senior VP and I assume the Super Senior VP, Super Duper VP and so on...
I went thru some of that BS when I first started out as a field construction engineer. They were working us 60+ hours/week for 40 hour pay....salary.
What the doofus SOBs didn’t know was that I could burn rod...and burn it quite well.....really really well.
Pleading with upper management got me nowhere. Finally, the site manager told me that if I didn’t like it, I could aways drag up and leave. That was enough for me right there....The welding supervisor knew me and just smiled when he said it. He knew what was fixin to happen.
The local pipefitters union manning the job happened to be really hurting for weldors. I walked over to the test booth, passed the test on the first go around, then went back into the site manager’s office and quit the “engineering” job. That next morning, I started working as a weldor on the same job site for more money, paid for all the OT that I could stand and better benefits.....and protected from that insane site manager by the union....LOL. It was a great job after that. Those were the days...
Billy Squier - The Stroke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69fPof-ZTnU