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Re:Elon Musk Lays Off Employee Who Slept on the Floor to Mee... by dragonwriter on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:48PM (#34960336)
> Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers)

That's not what “exempt” means, though its very common for those to correlate (you can be hourly exempt and salaried non-exempt.)

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Re:Elon Musk Lays Off Employee Who Slept on the Floor to Mee... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:05PM (#34960548)
Sure, that's possible, although (in my experience) very uncommon.

Plus, the last half of that sentence was "where what the "exempt" refers to is whether the worker is exempt from overtime rules and other concerns", which very much is what exempt means. The US Department of Labor has more details: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime

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