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NWMR: Overtime Pay?
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For those of you that are salary - does your company pay you to work overtime? At my company we pay salaried (i.e. exempt) employees a fairly small percentage of overtime hours worked. I'm just curious how it is at other companies.
I'm facing the situation where I'm going to have to ask/urge/beg an employee to work overtime to get projects done but I can't agree to pay a higher percentage and I can't demand it. However, I'm trying to figure out how to strongly encourage for the sake of his/her upcoming performance review, without that sounding like a threat. Ugh! Management is tough! 
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Re: NWMR: Overtime Pay?
At my job I'm salary. I need to work until the work is done. If I work 40 hours or 60 hours my pay is still the same.
This is a known expectation for my role.
It sucks sometimes, but I think that's just part of being a salaried employee.
No overtime here either.
If the project is this important, but you don't want to come across threatening could you meet with the person to find out what else is on their plate. Maybe just a brief, this must be finished by xyz date, what else do you have that is taking time away from it? Also, I'd ask if they have enough resources, if they are getting enough uninterrupted time. I sometimes found it helpful to work in an unused office or conference room to get some quiet time.
Perhaps you could approach it as an efficiency issue--she has a set amount of work to be done and she's expected to do it, period. If she can't complete her assigned projects within a 40 hour time frame, you'd be willing to let her work extra hours in order to maintain her expected productivity. (Just like every other employee is expected to do.)
When I was salary I worked 60 hour weeks without any OT pay. H works probably at least 80 hours/week without OT pay--but his quarterly bonuses are based on his performance review scores. More productivity, in general, = larger bonus.
That's not really fair though if she's being given extra work to do on top of her current assignments. When it comes down to it there's only so much work you can do in a day.
I'm salaried and I make time and half for all overtime hours. That said, due to the crappy economy and budget cuts, my company only offers overtime in extreme and/or specific cases and we mostly get comp time for extra hours worked.
I'm salaried and I do not get paid overtime and I generally work 45+ hours a week. Has this person ever had to work over 40 hours before? It's no that uncommon for salaried employees to work over 40/week, but generally their salary is aligned with their job requirements etc.
I am struggling to see why you have to beg. I would mention there are time sensitive projects and everyone's cooperation is needed to complete them in a timely manner. Don't position it as an option. I would ask your HR department for help in what you can/should say if they push back.
If they are a high potential/high contributor - make sure you recognize them for their contributions and overtime.
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I am salaried, and no, we don't get overtime or comp time. There would be no begging in my office - if a project needs to be finished by a certain time, we do whatever is necessary to finish it, including working overtime.
Is this request of yours just so that the employee can have face time? I don't understand why you'd have to ask them to work OT. If their workload demands it, they should work it. If they can find ways to finish projects without working OT, they shouldn't be forced.
No.
I am looking at a 17-18 hour day in the next month, and I won't even get any comp time out of it, let alone overtime pay. Color me thrilled.
I am salaried, I work until the job is done. We don't get paid OT and we don't get comp time. This is my 3rd salaried job and it was the same at all 3 compaines.
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No overtime here, and no official comp time but we can flex the hours within a pay period. So like last week I worked 3 10 hr days in a row for a release we were getting out the door, so this week I'm taking a half day off today since our pay period runs 1-15th of the month. As long as I get the total hours needed in the pay period billed then I don't need to use PTO for today.
But if I had something today and couldn't take off, I wouldn't get overtime pay for this pay period.
And while I agree that she shouldn't have to beg, I think the company has kind of shot themselves in the foot by doing this. They've absolutely set up the expectation that employee's will get OT and to NOT get it... I absolutely expect that at least some of the employee's will be pissed and will push back.
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I'm a compensation analyst, so this is my area of specialty.
Would you consider a project bonus to be paid at the completion of these projects? If so, I would tell the person that they would be considered for a project bonus (amount would need to be in line with the amount of work and scope of project(s)) at the end of the project(s). The project bonus should be discretionary and not guaranteed.
Honestly, your company already goes above and beyond in terms of paying "overtime" to exempt employees. Not to mention that most full-time exempt employees work over 40 hours anyways. I'm certainly not trying to sound mean by saying this, but if they don't like their situation, maybe they need to look elsewhere for a job that would be a better fit.