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I'm no lawyer, but: by law, if you are expected to work 12-hour days, isn't the company supposed to pay you overtime? My understanding was that even if you are
by discardorama 12y ago
I'm no lawyer, but: by law, if you are expected to work 12-hour days, isn't the company supposed to pay you overtime? My understanding was that even if you are an 'exempt' employee, if the _expectation_ is that you have to work more than 40 hours/week, you should be paid overtime?
- moron4hire 12y agoI know that to be the case in Pennsylvania and Virginia, as those are the states I've lived in. I believe it to be the case in New York.
- greenyoda 12y agoIn the U.S., this is actually governed by a Federal law, the Fair Labor Standards Act. The U.S. Department of Labor has lots of information about it: http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm
- danielweber 12y agoAny employee of theirs who is reading this should just call the NY DOL and ask. Even if they don't work there any more. They might get a nice check from Handy's. It doesn't matter which employee calls in; if they do an audit, all employees who were underpaid will get payments.
- greenyoda 12y agoA "Customer Experience Associate" is almost certainly not an exempt employee, so U.S. law would require them to be paid overtime for any hours in excess of 40 hours a week. If you're an exempt employee, there's no requirement that you be paid overtime, no matter how many hours a week you're required to work.
- cdcarter 12y agoThe salary could be calculated based on 72 hr weeks. At current NY state law, a gross annual salary of 35k assuming 48 paid weeks of employment at 72 hours a week would come to an hourly wage of $8.67, with overtime paid.