Re: Hourly vs Salaried

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Wrong.

On 8/03/07, Michael wrote:
> I was recently hired as a salaried employee. I began the
> job, with the stated office hours of 8:30 to 5:00. I
> arrived at work between 8:15 and 9:00 and worked till 5:00
> to 7:00 every day. One day I was done with the immediate
> work I had to do and told the secretary I was leaving
> early, about 4:30. The next day the owner spoke to me when
> I arrived at 9:00 saying "I thought we were clear on the
> hours." I need you here 8:30AM to 5PM. I know sometimes
> you work late and that's nice but not required. I was
> thinking that he doesn't know what salaried vs hourly
> means and he SHOULD have hired me as an hourly employee.
> So time went on and one day I came in late, about 9AM. He
> gave me a verbal reprimand, to which I apologized and
> decided just to treat the job as hourly, as that was what
> he was expecting. The next day I was told to take a job
> home and complete it over the weekend. Now I KNOW he
> doesn't know what salaried vs hourly is. I have to work
> 8:30AM to 5PM period. (That's a time figure, not a task
> related figure.) AND I have to work whatever other hours I
> am asked. Isn't this illegal? It's one or the other,
> right? Either you do the job, or you do the hours. An
> employer can't ask you to stick to hours when it suits
> him, disallowing you the advantages of salaried
> employement where you are not so constrained by the time
> as much as the task, and then treat you like a salaried
> employee when it suits him, disallowing you the advantage
> of hourly such as overtime, right?