Hello, I am from Georgia, I work as a business/technical analyst for a LARGE company that all of you know... I am curious what the Salary Exempt laws are specifically in this state? I am a non supervisor with no employees reporting to me, and my job could be considered almost administrative in its nature (all I do is sit here at my computer and shuffle numbers and report them up the chain). I have worked for this company for almost exactly 1 year now, puting in an average of 60 hrs per week and I do NOT receive overtime since we are classified as Salary Exempt. It just occured to me that if the company is skirting any laws, I would like to know as there are a dozen people on my floor that would significantly benefit from finding that out!

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration!

Josh W

Despite popular belief it is not necessary to have employees reporting to you in order to qualify as exempt. There are several exempt categories and having direct reports is only a requirement for one of them (the Executive). You can find additional information about overtime exemptions on this link. The appropriate one for you is probably the Administrative.

http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/fact_exemption.htm

Good resource, and thanks! Unfortunately, I DO qualify as exempt according to the Administrative qualifications. That STINKS! I would love to go back at my company and tell them they owe me about 15+ hours of overtime per week for the past 50 weeks! That would be LOVELY!

Thanks for your quick response!

Josh W