I am a General Manager in California,my salary was $5900 month 45 hrs. a week no over-time....I'm now being paid $27.24 an hr. and I can now get paid for over-time with a maximum of 15 hrs. a week(55 hr week). I feel like this is highway robbery!!!!! I'm getting paid less then I was when I was salary. Of course if I work the overtime I will equal make more in over-time, but this is not fair. They used a system of 55 hours a week as a average for all management in divide by 52 weeks. How are they going to use hours against us that they never paid us for because we could not get over-time...Please I need help even legal help...
2007-12-05 15:05:41 · 6 answers · asked by Fashion Icon 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment ➔ Law & Legal
yes they can doesn't that suck:( Happened to my step dad. Then the company went under. I'd look eles were for employment if they don't value enough to treat you with respect by giving you the option if you already work there.
2007-12-05 15:15:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not illegal to pay you hourly. A company can pay all employee hourly if they wanted to, but I would question why they made the change - any why now? Did your job also change or just the way they pay you? I
n California the definition of "exempt" is very strict, so there is a chance that they feel your job does not qualify. You should speak to your Manager or HR and ask them why they made the change. You may have a case to request back overtime if in fact your job does not qualify as exempt. You can google several cases like this...fast food managers are paid hourly...supermarket checkers....nurses....many jobs are paid hourly to satisfy the requirements of State law.
2007-12-05 15:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Adam G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's legal for them to make the change. As a general manager with a salary that high, it would be legal by federal law to pay you on salary but not pay you overtime - I don't know about CA overtime laws. It's possible that something changed in CA law that drove the company to make this change.
Unless there was a CA law that went in BEFORE they changed you from salary to hourly, they don't have to go back and pay you for overtime worked before the change was made to hourly.
2007-12-06 04:24:05 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, unless you're under contract, you have to take it like a man.
As long as they pay you for what you work though, there is no legal help. Unfortunately this happens a lot. Tough luck. Hire a head hunter to shop your resume around. It might be what you needed anyways to find the company you really want to work with
2007-12-05 15:19:16 · answer #4 · answered by Buddy Lee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is always legal to move someone from non-exempt/salary to exempt/hourly. It's not always legal to do the reverse.
Many employers may be switching to this classification because non-exempt classifications are very strict and companies can get penalized for mis-classifying folks non-exempt/salary.
At least you'll get overtime pay for those extra hours.
2007-12-06 00:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by leysarob 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hey, man do you wan to switch jobs? here in maine... doing about the same thing your doing earning $7.75 an hr..... hello..
ya its legal... they can do it...... sorry
2007-12-05 15:17:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋