To give a little background. In Summer 2014 i applied for and landed my first corporate job, I understood the distinction between being exempt vs non-exempt. I was told my base salary/hourly rate and what the premium pay (1.5 times base hourly rate) for anything over 40 hours/week. The role at the time was tedious, boring, very process oriented and I hated it, however, I'm glad I suffered through it because by end of 2015 it enabled me to apply for and land the job I currently have at the same firm.
The thing is, though, the job I currently have is not anything like the previous role in that it has a great deal more autonomy, I am responsible for a certain amount of project management and honestly, no one cares if I work remotely as long as I get my work done. Everyone else on my team is salaried/exempt. I was told and understood that with an internal job transfer at the firm, I would not get a pay increase as lateral moves do not require rank change.
That being said, the entry level salary for my current role is about $5k-7k more than the base salary I came into the firm with in 2014. My previous boss voluntarily went to HR to try and get this changed for me and broached the topic barely half a year into my time in the new role (I was not planning to bring compensation up being brand new to the job, the area and all; seemed premature and presumptuous haha). Unfortunately, that boss moved to another area and my current boss, while awesome, recently told me that my "raise" was barely an extra dollar per hour (though the bonus was much nicer than it's been in the past since I started at the bank). Since then, my current boss has told me that she expects all her reports to do their work in 8 hours per day with very little exception. Additionally, as I continue to learn/be mentored in my role (bit of a steep learning curve), I won't have extra work. In order to get overtime pay I will need advance approval. I've earned OT pay since 2014 when I was hired and now I'm told that I won't be able to get OT pay, so effectively, I have a pay cut and no one on my team is in this situation because they are all salaried so they work however many hours they want and get paid a stable paycheck.
I have been in touch with the boss and HR expressing concern about just being changed to exempt because if i'm not going to earn OT, why shouldn't I just be classified like my team mates?
Do I have any recourse? Am I likely to be stuck with the base salary and not able to earn OT even though my non exempt says I have opportunity to? Has anyone been in this situation before?
Submitted February 19, 2017 at 11:43AM by concordancevr9 http://ift.tt/2m10O87
