I have been an employee of my company for 20 months. I am now exempt do to having 2.5 employees that I supervise. I meet all the criteria for beeing exempt. The 1st 8 months I only supervised 1.5 employees. So I did not meet the criteria of having 2 or more employees to be exempt. So do I have a claim because at that time I averaged about 20 hours of overtime per pay period that I was not paid for or had compt out. Then in the next 12 months I went 3 months with only 1 employee. I averaged about 25 hours of overtime per pay period during that period that I did not get paid for or comt out. Do I have a claim .

It is possible to be exempt without supervising any employees at all. Supervising two or more is required only for the executive exemption, not the adminstrative, professional or computer exemptions. So if your only reason for believing you might be due overtime is that you supervised less than 2 employees, no, you do not have a claim.

I am a blue collar worker does that do anything for my cause. I dont just supervise but I work hand in hand with them.

Your first post says you meet all the criteria for being exempt. If that is true, it does not change the answer at all.

Ok, I am so confused on the exempt non-exempt thing. I am a working supervisor for a company that manages 12 apartment comunities. I supervise and perform the maintenance for these comunities. I also handle the emergency on call service we provide. I can be called out at any time of the day or night to repair somthing. That is every 3rd week. I make 34,000 a year (salary). Am I exempt? Do you need more information?