I'm just wondering if this is legal... I get paid salary, 80 hours every 2 weeks, but required to work 47.25 hours a week, obviously that is more than 80 hours for 2 weeks, and they don't pay me for the extra time I work and just last pay period I worked 62.25 hours and then took 24 hours of my earned vacation, for my wedding, and they only paid me for working 56 hours and 24 vacation hours, so they took away some of the hours that I worked to even it out to 80 hours, it doesn't seem legal to me but I don't really know the laws about this whole salary thing... someone help me understand why they can do this!!

If you are a salaried employee, the hours you work do not matter. Just the hours that you do not work.

Salaried exempt are not paid by the hour so hours do not count. The Salaried employee is paid for the job that he does and not for the hours spent doing the job.

Salaried exempt employees are exempt from the FLSA and from overtime. The employer can ask a salaried employee to work any number of hours and no extra compensation is due.

The Salaried exempt earns his salary , it is the same each payday regardless of the hour. If the salaried employee works part of a day he must be paid for the entire day. He can be docked for a full day off for personal reasons.

Shirley