Is it legal for an employer to increase your hours and salary?
Assuming you are in the US, your employer can increase your duties without increasing your salary. If you are in a bona fide FLSA exempt job (professional, administrative, executive, outside sales, etc) and do not receive an overtime premium for hours over 40 per week, your employer can also increase your hours without increasing your salary.
Can a exempt employee work more hours without pay?
While it’s true that an exempt employee can work more hours without an increase in pay, you will lose loyalty. For hourly employees, of course, you’ll have to sign off on overtime pay without any criticism or moaning about the cost. For exempt employees, you’ll need to come up with something to compensate them.
What’s the best way to increase employee hours?
The easiest thing to do is increase salaries. If that’s out of the question, you’ll need to come up with something else. Ask your employees what they are interested in. Sometimes people are willing to jump in and do some extra while you’re hiring a new employee to cover the extra hours.
Do you have to pay employees for every hour they work?
You must pay your Non-exempt employees for every hour they work. They also must receive overtime pay when they reach 40 hours a week (and in some states, if they work more than eight hours in one day). You cannot just say, “I want everyone to be on salary.”
Assuming you are in the US, your employer can increase your duties without increasing your salary. If you are in a bona fide FLSA exempt job (professional, administrative, executive, outside sales, etc) and do not receive an overtime premium for hours over 40 per week, your employer can also increase your hours without increasing your salary.
Can a boss increase the hours I work?
My employer has entered into consultation on the terms and conditions of employment. One of the changes is to the working hours, 37.5 increasing to 45 hours per week. They are not proposing to increase the salary. The salary will remain the same.
Can a employer make you do more work without a raise?
Being made to do more work without more pay is certainly unfair, and there are many things about employment that are unfair. The unfortunate answer to your question is that it is likely your employer can increase your duties without giving you a raise. In fact, there are only a number of limited circumstances where an employer could not do this…
While it’s true that an exempt employee can work more hours without an increase in pay, you will lose loyalty. For hourly employees, of course, you’ll have to sign off on overtime pay without any criticism or moaning about the cost. For exempt employees, you’ll need to come up with something to compensate them.