12.04 - Review of Personnel Policy in regard to Exempt Employees

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`- Personnel Policy Amendments to Address Exempt Employees: 1. Add to Definitions: Exempt Employee Employees who are not covered by the overtime provisions of the federal or state Fair Labor Standards Act. Non - Exempt Employee Employees who are covered by the federal or state Fair Labor Standards Act. Such employees are normally eligible for overtime at 1.5 times their regular hourly wage for all hours worked over forty (40) in any given workweek. 2. Exempt (non - overtime- eligible) Employee: Exempt employees are expected to work the hours necessary to meet the performance expectations outlined by their supervisors. Generally, to meet these expectations, and for reasons of public accountancy, an exempt employee will need to work 40 hours or more per week. Exempt employees do not receive extra pay for the hours worked over 40 in one workweek. Exempt employees are paid on a salary basis. This means that they receive a predetermined amount of pay each pay period and are not paid by the hour. Their pay does not vary based on the quality or quantity of work performed, and they receive their full weekly salary for any week in which any work is performed. The City of Pequot Lakes will only make deductions from the weekly salary of an exempt employee in the following situations: 1. The employee is in a position that does not earn vacation or personal leave and is absent for a day or more for personal reasons other than sickness or accident. 2. The employee is in a position that earns sick leave, receives a short term disability benefit or workers' compensation wage loss benefits and is absent for a full day due to sickness or disability, but he /she is either not yet qualified to use the paid leave or he /she has exhausted all of his/her paid leave. 3. The employee is absent for a full workweek and, for whatever reason, the absence is not charged to paid leave (for example, a situation where the employee has exhausted all of his/her paid leave or a situation where the employee does not earn paid leave).