All Questions and Answers about Overtime

Salary vs. Hourly
A few days ago I inquired about a salary vs. hourly question and received a very informative answer. I approached the controller in our company and she agreed completely with your reply but stated the...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 10, 2006 05:34 AM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

salary holiday pay and time clocks
the company i work for is a salary and hourly based employer. for our holidays they require us to work the day before and the day after to be paid for the holiday. i understand the hourly employees, b...
1 answer  |  asked Jul 5, 2006 4:53 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

Salary vs. Hourly
Two and a half months ago I accepted a position with a company offering me salary vs. hourly. I've been putting in anywhere from 9-11 hours a day, five days a week and was recently told with the upcom...
1 answer  |  asked Jun 23, 2006 7:56 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

clocking out for lunch
I work for a corp, (LLC)that has several branches in several states. The headquarters, or corp. offices are in TN. There are only 2 employees in each office. We work M-S, alternating weekends and 1 da...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 8, 2006 9:39 PM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

Having it both ways....
I am a teacher for a local community college vocational school. I am salaried, and exempt. I rarely work less than 55 hours per week, and some weeks have worked in excess of 70 hours. My employer has ...
1 answer  |  asked Jan 3, 2006 1:51 PM [EST]  |  applies to Arizona

Billable time & required time in the office?
My boyfriend recently took a job doing ITS, website management, and website design work. He was told he would be paid $10 an hour for the ITS/website managment stuff and $20 and hour for any of the de...
1 answer  |  asked Dec 17, 2005 11:17 AM [EST]  |  applies to Tennessee

Confusion about overtime pay...
I recently accepted a job position with the title of assistant manager for a local chain of speciality retail shops. I was told that I would recieve a salary of XX, XXX per year, but that also anythin...
1 answer  |  asked Nov 30, 2005 12:10 AM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Unfair mandatory overtime
There are two shifts at my job. Can they make one shift work more mandatory overtime than the other?
1 answer  |  asked Nov 9, 2005 1:42 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Commission only employee
I would like to hire a few commission only employees. Can I hire them as exempt or do I need to hire them as non-exempt and pay overtime? For the non-exempt answer, how would I calculate the overtime ...
1 answer  |  asked Sep 30, 2005 6:08 PM [EST]  |  applies to California