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I am hoping you all have some suggestions for how to handle a potentially difficult change for employees.
My small construction company has 2 supervisors who are currently exempt status. Throughout
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exempt to non-exempt status change
posted at 7/13/2010 5:28 AM EDT
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I am hoping you all have some suggestions for how to handle a potentially difficult change for employees.
My small construction company has 2 supervisors who are currently exempt status. Throughout the past year, their duties and responsibilities have changed enough to force us to reconsider the exempt status. I now believe that they are better classified as non-exempt employees.
I was wondering if anyone else had experience in making a change similar to this.
Do we need to back-pay OT? If the change in duties has been gradual, how do we determine the time period for back-pay? Is there any way to take into consideration the full salary paid when the employee did not work up to 40 hours/week?
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posted at 7/16/2010 12:06 PM EDT
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Did they work a lot of overtime during the past year? If yes I would ask them to estimate the hours on time sheets and then you should pay them at overtime rates.
Doing this would greatly reduce any potential liabilities you may have.
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posted at 7/16/2010 12:12 PM EDT
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I actually keep accurate records of hours worked for other purposes, so estimating won't be necessary. Is the year of back-pay just your suggested time period, or can I find that requirement somewhere?
Thanks for the input!
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