If you are paid salery for your position, why is it

Dear Customer (name blocked for privacy),

Hourly employees get overtime because both state and federal laws are written to give them that right. In addition, there are also rules now that provide legal ways to separate employees into the categories of hourly or salaried based on their job responsibilities - http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/fs17g_salary.htm

There are no laws that require employers to pay salaried employees overtime NOR are there laws that require employers to only let salaried employees work a number of hours equal to the number they are told the job will take UNLESS the employer at anytime told the employee or let the employee believe that they would not work a specific number of hours.

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Thank you for your reply, it just does not seem fair that we can not be compensated in some way for putting in more hours, as a assistant manager we are required to do the job of hourly employees as well as assistant managers, because they do not want to pay over time to hourly's that is why we have to stay and get the work done. we are told we cant leave until it is done. This should be changed. this is not fair pay under the fair labor law. so as salery we can be told we must stay, regardles of how many hours it takes, (14-16) hour days.

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