I am a salaried employee who runs a construction site (DC based company). I missed Monday and Tuesday during a week but worked on Saturday. I worked 4 days that week and had 39 hours, however I was still forced to use 2 sick days (16 hours) of the 5 we get annually and if you go over it takes away vacation time.
Is this correct and legal, or should I just be forced to take 1 sick day since I only worked 4 or should I be forced to bring me up to the 40 hour minimum? Our company has no written policy and most of their actions seem to be shoot from the hip reactions I wanted to know what the law states.

If you are salaried, your pay is fixed for the week, whether you are ill or not.

Salaried basically you get to work 50 to 60 hours a week for the flat salary, no overtime. If you run short on hours worked, your pay is the same.

Hello:

What donf says is true, but you need to DO something about it...

Send them a certified letter stating that they can't call you hourly when you don't have ENOUGH hours, but call you salaried when you have TOO many hours.

Tell them that if they continue their arbitrary ways, you'll be forced to resign and sue them.

excon

I'm in Florida.. So does this vary from state to state? I'm a salaried employee and was recently told that if I take more than 3 hours off for a Dr.'s appt or something similar, they will take an entire sick day, not just the 3 or 4 hours. Can they do this?