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Subject:Re: hot tech writing mkt From:Tracy Boyington <trlyboyi -at- GENESIS -dot- ODVTE -dot- STATE -dot- OK -dot- US> Date:Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:30:12 +0000
> > Just to clarify... the fact that you are paid on salary does *not*
> > automatically mean you are exempt (I assume we mean exempt from
> > overtime). Or have things changed in the last 4 years?
> >
> > Tracy
> "Exempt" means the opposite: exempt from the requirements of
> the Fair Labor Standards Act. In other words, an exempt employee
> can be required to work more than 40 hrs/wk and isn't entitled to
> extra overtime pay.
That's exactly what I meant; I just didn't say it very well. Good
thing I write for a living, huh? ;-) Anyway, when I started here I
was on salary and I was *not* exempt from overtime pay. Not that I
ever asked for any.
Tracy
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Tracy Boyington trlyboyi -at- genesis -dot- odvte -dot- state -dot- ok -dot- us
Oklahoma Department of Vocational & Technical Education
Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA http://genesis.odvte.state.ok.us/cimc/home.htm
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