Extended Overtime

[Benton]

(06-01-2016, 01:17 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So I'm bringing this back around because I keep getting emails about it from our HR department. This is going to be very interesting to Virginia, because we will have state employees that are department managers that will still be non-exempt employees because their salaries are too low.

For instance, the Payroll Manager position here is open. I have thought about applying for it and I realized today that with that job, overseeing all payroll for the 3000 some odd employees here, not counting student workers, I would still be non-exempt. I don't know if anyone here has had to do anything payroll-wise, but that department puts in hours when others are nowhere to be found, and the manager should always be there if other employees have to be.

Seems pretty ridiculous that this sort of situation will now exist here.

I'm leaning more toward it being a positive than I was when it was first announced. There will be some businesses that struggle, but that's going to be true at any wage standard. Like I said in another post I think some employers are either going to have an eye opening when they realize they've got people essentially doing the work of two people, or they're going to realize how little some employees do. For a long time, for a lot of businesses it was easier to just plan on having X salaries and nobody has been following up on that.