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Is It OK to Allow Exempt Employees to Perform Some Nonexempt Duties?

October 24, 2019

Via: HR Hero
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You may have employees whom you have properly classified as exempt from receiving overtime pay under federal and state wage and hour law. What happens when you are short one or more hourly employees and you ask an exempt employee to pick up their duties? Under certain circumstances, you may have overtime liability. Read on to learn how to minimize potential liability in these circumstances.

The Problem

The first set of questions to ask when you classify an employee as exempt from overtime pay is whether he meets the applicable tests for the exemption. Those tests include the minimum pay threshold, the salary basis test, and the duties test. For this article, we are assuming that the requirements of all the tests have been satisfied and your employee is properly classified as exempt.

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