Pay for Exempt when company has no power!

hrinmi

For those who were affected by the lovely power outtages. What are you doing for your salary folks? Of course Sunday was the end of the pay period so we have payroll on hold while we figure this out.

Controller would like all Salary Personnel to be paid since it was pretty much a natural disaester, Governor called for a State of Emergency and advised all to stay off the roads as there were no traffic signals.

Others would like to have them us a PTO/VAC day.

Thoughts?

Shadowfax

Per the FLSA: "Salary" must be paid at a predetermined rate and no deductions may be made "for absences occasioned by the enmployer or by operaqting requirements of the business" or "when work is not available." The general rule is salary must be paid for any week in which any work is performed - so absent a specific exception for natural disasters (and I'm not aware of one) I would expect they should be paid.

DeniseR

We pay our exempt employees for the full day as well. But I actually have a question about non exempt employees. Can anyone tell me how they treated their hourly employees? I've heard that they were NOT paid and I also heard that tehy were because this was a state of emergency. I just wanted to see which option was most common? I appreciate your responses.
Denise (Northern NJ)

clarkbar

We are allowing hourly and salaried non-exempt employees to use a vacation day for Friday if they would like to be paid or they can take the day with no pay. Of course our exempt workforce will be paid for the entire day.