Hourly employees are paid by the hour, and get time and a half for hours worked over 8 per day.
When I was a salaried employee I was working up to 60 hours per week, sometimes travelling on company business for a 3 week stretch, and yet I never received a cent over my monthly 'salary'. Occassionally some paltry bonus, but it was entirely discretionary.
I believe that this law needs to be reviewed. There is nothing to stop a Company, and I worked for a few, to turn a salaried employee into basically a slave. In my company you were required to put in 8 hours, with special projects the hours could go late into the evening, the weekend, etc. It was ridiculous.
I believe that Corporate America knows they have a 'good thing'. But this form of compensation should stop. Every individual should be paid for every hour he or she works. Salaried employees have a life too.
2006-09-07
06:45:23
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