I appreciate the feedback.  You always realize the things that seem so
obvious that you forget to mention because you're trying to even wrap your
head around the situation.

The company has brances in several states, but the main office & the IT
staff is located in Ohio.

Our HR department / person...  has not been to helpful when it comes to the
entire situation.

I believe all of our IT department excluding our manager would be considered
non-exempt.  The articles I've been through (about 20) are mostly federal
documents.  They all state that unless you make over a certain wage ($455
per week for Salary & $27.63 for Hourly) and work as the programmer,
analyst, developer, etc, which none of us are, we cannot be considered
Exempt.

I figure we'll have to hire a lawyer or outside HR professional to just
answer our questions ;)

I just wanted to say thank you in advance, I appreciate any feedback.

Thanks again,

Sean Houston

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Sherry Abercrombie <[email protected]>wrote:

> Get your Human Resources Dept. involved.  They should know exactly what the
> rules/laws are, and should have the authority to squash any opposition you
> are getting.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Sean Houston <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> I was curious as to what everyone does here (or your company does) in
>> regards to IT staff and salaries.  I'm not management, but when it comes to
>> anything IT related I'm the go to guy.  I know there is a lot of gray area
>> in regards to how salary and overtime works especially in relation to IT
>> work.
>>
>> From what I can tell according to the department of labor unless your
>> primary job is a systems developer, analyst, programmer, etc your employer
>> is required to pay you overtime unless you are management.  We have IT
>> Technicians who are salary, but they are going to have to start working
>> overtime soon.  I believe the company is required to pay them overtime, but
>> I'm meeting some strong opposition on this.  I've read even if there is an
>> agreement between the employee and employer, or the salary is based on 50
>> hours, these types of agreements are restricted by the department of labor.
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts, or even better, experience with such things?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Sean Houston
>>
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> --
> Sherry Abercrombie
>
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
> Arthur C. Clarke
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