Comments on: If You Work More than 40 Hours a Week, This Trump Administration Change May Make Your Paycheck Bigger https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/09/if-you-work-more-than-40-hours-a-week-this-trump-administration-change-may-make-your-paycheck-bigger.html Everything to make HR better Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: MariaRose https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/09/if-you-work-more-than-40-hours-a-week-this-trump-administration-change-may-make-your-paycheck-bigger.html#comment-214422 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:16:31 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5418#comment-214422 Obviously this article is geared towards the part time professionals who are hired to work a position that clearly doesn’t overall need a full time employee. Any good employee will be noticed by the workplace and will be asked to stay longer than the hours scheduled because their efficiency is needed, so granted they should be paid for all time work. But this also can be negotiated in the hire package for this position.
As for this new development for salaries of exempt employees, again the hours required to work ( unless you are dealing with an unscrupulous employer and a dishonest employee) are pretty clear—an expected amount of work time is expected because the end goal is to achieve expectations, e.g. payroll paperwork, hiring paperwork,all projects that don’t involve one-to-one interaction with others, mainly background necessary projects that still need the human touch. I totally disagree with using a salary exempt position in certain jobs where the individual is expected to work beyond the hourly requirement for that salary as an excuse to not pay overtime for any employee. Companies like to pay salaries mainly for control of labor costs but that agreement for that salary is twofold. The employee knows that they have to produce work equal to the salary and the employer has to approve the time worked and job performance within the agreed contract, despite unexpected issues.
As for the salary amount, this should be evaluated to accommodate COLA at an agreed periodic time. It may or not be increased depending on circumstances.

]]> By: Millennial Perspective https://www.evilhrlady.org/2019/09/if-you-work-more-than-40-hours-a-week-this-trump-administration-change-may-make-your-paycheck-bigger.html#comment-214420 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:34:13 +0000 https://www.evilhrlady.org/?p=5418#comment-214420 It would be nice if they would build in inflation adjustments to these metrics. Rather then revisiting every decade or so and massively increasing the poverty levels, salary threshold and federal minimum wages.

Time for Congress to make like the rest of us and automate so they can get more done with less time.

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