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Jeanette Coleman, SPHR & SHRM-SCP
on
Feb
15,
2017
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Non-exempt workers must be paid overtime (time and a half) for any hours over 40 they work in a single week.
Exempt workers are exempt from overtime requirements — but they must be paid the same salary every week, if they worked any portion of it, with a few narrow exceptions. (See below.)
Employers do not determine whether an employee is exempt or non-exempt. It’s determined by how the government classifies the type of work an employee does. To be exempt, the employee must earn a salary of at least $23,600 (this is subject to change under the new - and pending - FLSA overtime rule) and perform relatively high-level work as the primary duties.
Specifically, in addition to the salary test, the employee must meet one of the following criteria:
You can read more about these exemptions On the US DOL fact sheet.
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