if you are salaried are you required to work more thatn 40 hrs without overtime?

Question

What are the laws about this

Answer 1

possibly. salary just means if you work under 40 hours you or more you only get paid for 40.

Answer 2

This depends on the company you work for. I am salaried, but no matter how many hours I work, I always get the same pay. Some places do give you overtime even if you are salaried, but thats pretty rare I think. If you are hourly, then you definitely get overtime. Although I worked as a manager of a movie theater (only for one month!) and was paid hourly, and no matter how many hours I worked, I never got overtime. I was working 60+ hours a week too! I wasnt there long...

Answer 3

Thats what being salaried is all about. You can be required to work 60 hours for your salaried pay. This is how some companies seduce new people. You come on board thinking your salary is for a 40 hour week and end up working 60. Kinda stinks for those employee's who have employers that abuse the salary concept.

Answer 4

When you are salaried you don't work hourly so there is no min or max you work. Because you are not hourly you do not get paid for hours you work over 40. You should check with yyour employer what the expectations are. Some "expect" salaried employees to work beyond the 40 hrs per week.

Answer 5

In this case, I always try to work only 40 hours a week. It's usually more like 42 or 43. But sometimes when I feel like crap, I just leave a little early. Also, get paid when you're sick that's a benefit. They can't necessarily require you to work more than 40 hours if you're salaried, but prepare to be fired if you don't.

Answer 6

You are not required to work over 40 hours unless needed. However, you will not get paid overtime. Most companies offer comp time to salaried employees.

Answer 7

The law says that salaried employess are exempt from overtime laws. That means that they are paying you a set amount to do a job, and if you can't do it in 40 hours, that's your problem. They do not owe you overtime pay.

Answer 8

Salaried means you are required to work as much as needed. That's why salaried jobs pay higher, the potential to work overtime is already figured into the gross pay.

Answer 9

Just because you are salaried, it doesnt mean that you can not collect overtime.
The Federal Government defines salried workers 2 ways: Exempt and Non exempt.
Exempt do not get overtime, Non exempt does.
Generally, exempt are management that have others reporting to them. Non exempt examples are secretaries, receptionists, custodial, etc.
If you do not have other employees rporting to you, you are most likely non-exempt, and the company must pay you overtime.

Answer 10

Salaried people can work 80 hours without overtime. (Unless you have a signed contract that states, after so many hours you are eligible for overtime pay.)

Answer 11

Pretty much, yeah. Some places give comp time to make up for some of the overtime, but it's at the individual employer's discretion. hopefully there will be other weeks when you work less than 40 hours to make up for it!