Exempt Employee Time Makeup?

[houman75]

What is the name of your state? Tennessee

I am an exempt employee receiving a salary. I do not receive any compensation whatsoever for hours worked over 40. If I have to take off an hour early or something like that to go to a doctor appointment or whatever, and my time for that week will end up being under 40 hours, my company requires me to make that time up before the end of the week. Can they require this? I thought that being an exempt employee meant that if you worked at least 2 hours of a day that you get paid for that day no matter what.

The other problem I have is that occassionally we have work related meetings during the day, and we are not allowed to charge the time we are in this meeting to the customer, as normal work time is. We are told there is nowhere for this time to be charged, so we have to make up the time we are in the meeting. What this essentially means is that we are required to attend the meeting, but it is on our own personal time, just like a lunch break, and we have to make up that time to meet the 8 hour day requirement.

 

[Beth3]

Being an exempt employee means that you are paid a fixed weekly salary regardless of the number of hours you work, with a very few, very specific exceptions. If your employer wishes you to make up the time if you are absent, they may.

Your employer requiring you to work extra hours to make up the time that you spend in a work related meeting seems pretty stupid (and cheesy) but that's not illegal either.

 

[pattytx]

And BTW, houman, as an exempt employee, there is no 2-hour minimum for you to work to get paid. If you work any time at all during a day, you must be paid for the full day.