Anyone know laws on Salary and Days off? (NWR)

Re: Anyone know laws on Salary and Days off? (NWR)

• meagandal

  

  February 2012

  what company does your payroll? they will be able to tell you, I know here in NY they were unable to deduct anything less than an entire week of pay when I was Salary.  I work for a small business and until we contracted a large payroll company no one was aware of these rules. aparently its also illegal to trade overtime for comp time.  Although a lot of this is also based on your classifications within your company and your job description, some people are exempt from consideration.

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• DeadUtopia member

  

  February 2012

  I used to work in the HR payroll dept for a bank, and when a salaried employee would miss work, the way they calculated the docked pay would be yearly salary/working hours in a year (weekdays in year x 8 for a 40 hour employee), and then they would subtract that amount out on a following paycheck
  
  Example $40,000 year salary, 2012 has 2080 work hours so, 40k divided by 2080= $19.23/hourly wage. 19.23 x 8= $153.84 daily.
  
  There were 2 categories of salaried employees though, like PP said, and I don't really remember the details too well, but it was something like exempt and non-exempt. I can't for the life of me remember the difference, but if you work for a larger employer, then you can definitely call and see if your pay can be docked as a salaried employee.

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• DirtyWater

  

  February 2012

  When I was a manager I was salary.  I was allowed 9 sick days, 3 personal days, 3 weeks vacation.  My check amount never changed once.

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• kellycatalo member

  

  February 2012

  if you have vacation days to take, i'd assume they'd be paid, or else, why can't you just take as many days as you want, since they aren't paying you anyway?
  
  seems weird you wouldn't get paid for your vacation days.

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• Sarah&Eric2012 member

  

  February 2012

  Exempt and Non-Exempt employees dictate whether you're allowed to be paid for overtime moreso than whether they will doc your pay if you're off for the day (Exempt don't get paid OT but non-exempt do).  It depends on the company's policy on vacation time.  If you have 2 weeks paid vacation that you haven't used yet then they should be deducting the time out of that rather than your paycheck.  If, however, you don't get vacation or haven't worked there long enough to be allowed to use it then they would dock your pay.  It's more dependent on company policy than anything else.  Most states don't get involved with paid time off for employees, every state will be different though, I've worked in payroll for a national company for Rhode Island and Mass and they both have different laws about things like this.  You can always check with your state's Department of Labor website too. 

  
  
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• adktd2boots member

  

  February 2012

  Thanks.  I haven't worked here long enough for vacation.  We get it at 6 months and 1 week.  My CA trip is right at 6 months, so I'll have to take a cut there too.  The HR lady doesn't seem to know much, she's more of a payroll person than an HR person, but I'll still send her an email today.

  
  
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• [Deleted User]

  

  February 2012

  I would confirm with someone at your work, but if you haven't been their long enough to get vacation days, it makes sense that any days off you take would be unpaid.  Paid time off is a benefit that, apparently, you don't have yet.

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