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There are some extraordinarily broad exemptions to overtime requirements. From memory, it basically boiled down to anyone whose job can be described as spending
by calamari4065 3y ago
There are some extraordinarily broad exemptions to overtime requirements. From memory, it basically boiled down to anyone whose job can be described as spending a majority of their time on a computer.
In my last corporate retail job, we had mandatory unpaid overtime. Assistant managers were required to work 44 hours and managers had to do 48, but got paid for 40.
Though those same overtime exemptions had their own counter-exemption if you had less than some number of employees as a manager. Because corporate wouldn't raise starting wages or approve new hires, many stores were below that limit and it was a huge scandal when some of them started demanding overtime pay. By then we were looking at 50 and 60 hour weeks with no overtime pay.
- metalcrow 3y agoCan you expand on how this works? Presumably retail workers have to log hours and clock in/out. Did the company demand you falsify your hours? Or did they just not pay for some of your hours? The latter seems clearly illegal, it's wage theft.
- calamari4065 3y agoManagers are salaried and get paid a flat 40 hours a week. We did have to track our hours to ensure that we were meeting the minimum hour count. So yeah, they basically just didn't pay you for all of your hours. It might technically be legal, but the company doesn't actually care about that. Wage theft is rampant, we all know that already
- metalcrow 3y agoAgreed, wage theft is definitely rampant, but with this it seems like you can very trivially report this to the state and get free money? You've got the hours and pay documents in writing, showing that to the state should get an immediate response. Or does the state labor department just not care?