Sunday, May 6, 2007 11:32 AM
I'm just curious...
I was reading the latest issue of Men's Health, and one of the features throughout the magazine is an "Ask the Experts" thing. One of the experts is Dan Abrams who covers law-based questions.
So this guy writes in about how he's in California and his boss wants to fire him because he's not putting in "enough hours", although those expected hours would be unpaid overtime! He asks whether his boss has any right doing this.
The response from Dan is that he probably does, because apparantly in California salaried employees only get overtime if they make $23,500.00 or less...but if you make over, then...well then what, so you're a slave to the company unless you have an overtime provision entered into your contract?!
Edit: Sorry, I re-read the article and its not just a California thing about the OT-under-23.5K...its a US Federal Law
I'm just curious to know what overtime laws are like in other parts of the US as well...I know a friend in North Carolina mentioned that over 8 hours a day isn't overtime, but more than 40 hours a week is...just to give a frame of reference, in Manitoba over 40 hours OR over 8 hours a day kicks the OT meter into work...and salary isn't an excuse to not-pay-overtime (unless they write that specifically into the contract and make that policy).
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