Help Wanted: Record keeping for manager's overtime
If you fall into the management category, your company doesn't have to be as rigorous with record keeping for you as it must be for hourly, or nonexempt employees. Credit: iStock
On the other hand, as a manager, or an exempt employee, you could work 20 extra hours a week and your company wouldn't have to pay you for them. So the hours recorded have less significance in your case.
"Bona fide exempt managers need not have their total hours worked (each workday and workweek) nor overtime hours recorded," said Irv Miljoner, who heads the Long Island office of the U.S. Labor Department.
Managers fall into the executive category and are exempt from overtime and even minimum wage. To preserve those exemptions, companies have to pay the exempt employees at least $455 a week and must guarantee that salary, unless those workers miss a full day of work for personal reasons.
Companies cannot designate someone as a manager willy-nilly.
In addition to the salary requirements, their primary duties must involve managing and they must supervise at least two full-time employees.
But here's a wrinkle: If you receive those extended benefits, your payments will be reduced 10.7 percent because of federal sequestration, or mandatory budget cuts.
As with all unemployment issues, the Labor Department suggests that you call its Telephone Claims Center because the department determines claims on a case-by-case basis.
You can reach the center at 888-209-8124.
For more on federal record-keeping requirements and managers, go to http://bit.ly/15ewgTR
For more on unemployment-benefit extensions, go to http://bit.ly/17luVKn
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