You’ve Heard of Quiet Quitting. Now Companies Are Quiet Cutting

Re:You’ve Heard of Quiet Quitting. Now Companies Are Quiet C... by Gibbon1 on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:09PM (#37299004)

In the US we have exempt and non-exempt employees. Non-exempt have more protections and have to be paid hourly and twice a month. They have to be paid overtime rates. There are other legal protections. Big one is the government will take direct action against employees that break labor laws against nonexempt employees. Where for non-exempt it mostly a civil matter.

Exempt employees are generally managers, engineers, that perform complex autonomous decision based work. Typically they are paid a monthly salary. But they don't have to be. I'm exempt and get paid hourly, every two weeks and I in theory get overtime.

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Re:You’ve Heard of Quiet Quitting. Now Companies Are Quiet C... by lotsofpulp on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:23PM (#37299165)

I have never heard of non exempt employees having more protections or having to be paid twice a month, in any US jurisdiction. Can you provide an example?

I have only ever heard of non exempt and exempt to simply distinguish employees that are owed overtime after 40 hours per week and employees that are not owed overtime after 40 hours per week.

There is no federal law about pay frequency, but pretty much all states require at least monthly, if not semi monthly or biweekly, regardless of exempt or non exempt nature of employee.

https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/pay-frequency-r...

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