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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are salaried, then you are exempt from federal overtime laws (flsa). 
Now, if you are not appropriately a salaried employee, that's another question. [/quote]

This is wholly inaccurate.  Many many many salaried employees (including lots of federal employees) are covered by FLSA and entitled to overtime pay.[/quote]

You're splitting hairs. The PP was probably using salaried in lieu of exempt versus non-exempt. Yes, there can be salaried non-exempt workers but the vast majority of salaried workers are exempt. The Federal government also has specific rules around pay that have nothing to do with the FLSA and is not applicable to the majority of the U.S. workforce.

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I disagree.  To say that anyone, or even most people, who is paid a salary is not entitled to overtime is spreading misinformation.  And FLSA is applicable to the federal workforce.[/quote]

No one said that Feds are not covered by the FLSA. The Feds have regulations above and beyond the FLSA. The majority of the U.S. Workforce does not work for the Federal government so what they offer doesn't apply to the majority of American workers (e.g. Public sector workers can revive comp time in lieu of overtime. Private sector workers cannot).

Since one of the requirements to be exempt is to be paid on a salaried basis, it is accurate to think the majority of workers that are salaried are exempt from overtime. That does not mean that ALL salaried workers are exempt. [/quote]

My point in referencing federal employees was to demonstrate that a large workforce of salaried employees, one that is particularly relevant to DCUM, is entitled to overtime.  Whether they are entitled to additional things is irrelevant.

I don't even know where to begin with your second point.  I would bet that most salaried employees are nonexempt.  Meeting one of several requirements means nothing.[/quote]

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