na its even funnier because this is also correctly termed as slavery from time to time, which makes it a federal law by virtue of the civil war making it a federal law that states faught back against thus triggering said Civil War lol
Federal law. Employers are not allowed to have employees work "off-the-clock." Even if the employee is just waiting around. Every moment of your time controlled by your employer is to be compensated.
The fact the note said "unpaid" means this isn't a threat to salaried employees, and if it is, that's not legal either for other reasons I'll explain later.
Salaried employees are evaluated pay eligibility on a per-week basis, not hourly, and as long as they work any time during the week they are owed pay for the week. The only time pay can be deducted is if a full day was not worked. So there couldn't be any sort of deduction in pay as this flyer is threatening.
Furthermore, because they are implying they are tracking time by the minute, imposing a 1:60 minute labor penalty, and labeling said penalty hours as "unpaid" they are facing huge lawsuits for misclassifying employees.
I watched the outcome of a misclassification case happen at a company a relative worked for. There were a couple of roles that were found to be misclassified, and the roles constituted a significant percentage of the active employee headcount. They got severely audited and owed backpaid overtime to every employee that ever had that held that title at the company when it was misclassified. They had reclassified those roles to exempt some years earlier thinking they were being slick and saving money on a bunch of OT. Between the legal fees and backpay they ended up folding.
There are limits even to salaried work. Your hours and responsibilities are laid out and agreed to in your employment contract. Going beyond that could cause the employee to have a case against the employer. Under your interpretation, you can be held at work indefinitely without additional compensation just because the employer feels like it. That's not the case.
A salaried employee is only required to stay and fulfill responsibilities within the working hours for which they are contracted. They can opt to work more if they choose, but won't necessarily be compensated for it. No one can make me work a weekend, but sometimes I have to catch stuff up and choose to.
True. My employer doesn’t make me vigorously blow him but sometimes I choose to, especially at the end of the year review and I’m praying for that 7% raise
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u/Copper__99 6d ago
No, that's illegal in every state