Flex time for Exempt
Bullion
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Currently, Exempt employees work from 8:00am-5:00pm and then attend a meeting periodically from 7:00pm-9:00pm on the same day. Our organization has allowed employees to flex their hours for that day so the exempt employee will not have to work more than 8 hours.
We want to make a change to this practice and not have flex time available to employees. We want the exempt employee to work their normal day 8:00am-5:00pm and also attend their required meeting from 7:00-9:00.
Are there any laws that would prohibit our organization from making this change?
Comments
No. You can work an exempt employee 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for as long as you want to (or they quit or die).
Beware though, you cannot dock these employees if they don't come to the meeting or do manage to take some time off. You will have to handle it as a disciplinary action (not coming to required meetings, etc). I would also avoid any thing that smells of keeping track of their hours.
Is there any reason these meetings can't take place during work? Can you start them at 4:30 or 5:00 and bring in dinner? This might go a long ways towards keeping morale up. The change you are talking about is bound to upset some of your employees, especially if you meet often.
Good luck!
Nae
Also...If this really does upset some of your ee's and no doubt that it will you should review the FLSA requirements for exempt ee's just to make sure that they all really do qualify. If one of them complains to the DOL about loosing their comp/flex time and states they are not being paid for time worked. When the DOL shows up to check it out they will most likely review the exempt/non-exempt status of all your ee's and not just the one that complained.
Personally I have never understood how some exempt ee's get away with working only 40 hours a week.
Good luck...