CAN THEY DO THIS? New Hampshire

[darkach]

My gf just got promoted and is not payin her salary until next week but this week she will be workin 60hrs but is still on hourly pay, but her boss is tryin to pay her half salary half hourly so they dont have to pay her 20 hr overtime can they do that?

[cbg]

Do what? I can't understand your post.

A little punctuation and sentence structure would be nice.

[darkach]

my girlfriend just got promoted. shes working 60hrs this week and get paid hourly for the 60 hrs. next week theyre starting her salary but since her boss is so cheap hes gonna pay her half salary and half hourly so he doesnt have to pay her 20hrs of overtime. i was askin can he do that.

[cbg]

We don't know, since you have given us no information to determine if she is exempt or non-exempt. (Salaried and exempt are NOT synonymous.)

If she is non-exempt, she has to be paid overtime for any hours over and abover 40 in a week that she works. If she is exempt, then anything that she receives over and above her regular salary is a gift from her employer.

[Pattymd]

And each workweek stands alone. What does she do? And did her job responsibilities change?

[Sudo]

My Boss has just started making me punch a software time clock on his pc, I am a full time hourly employee working 8 am to 5 pm, with an hour unpaid lunch.

Nobody else in the entire company has to punch a clock of any kind. My question is .. if I show up 10 min early, only take a 50 min lunch or stay 5 min late. Is the company now required to pay me overtime?

He's claiming that they don't and won't...

[ElleMD]

Yes it is legal to make you punch a time clock. Rounding of time to the nearest quarter hour is legal, and that sounds like what they are doing here. It doesn't matter so much when you clock in, if you are not working, it doesn't have to count as work hours. Of course the presumption is that the time clock is correct and reflects the hours you are working.

[Sudo]

my question is more , if my lunch gets cut 10 min to handle a customer or if a customer forces me to stay 10 min .. do they have to pay me?

before I just hand wrote 8 to 5 minus 1 hour

[moburkes]

Originally Posted by Sudo

my question is more , if my lunch gets cut 10 min to handle a customer or if a customer forces me to stay 10 min .. do they have to pay me?

before I just hand wrote 8 to 5 minus 1 hour

Yes, but they can also ask you to leave 10 minutes early if you returned from lunch 10 minutes early, or ask you to come in 10 minutes later tomorrow (if same work wekk), so that you don't get paid for more than 40 hours per week.

[ElleMD]

The same rounding rules would still apply.