Exempt and non exempt duties - what am I considered?
I'm mainly inside sales rep, but also perform administrative duties such as answering/transferring calls, mail, packages, write reports for VPs. I get paid salary and commission from my sales. My question is am I exempt or non exempt? How do I find out? Should the accounting/HR be able to tell me?
Also, our company has slashed hours because "it's slow". Do they have a right to do this if I'm a salary employee? We're not allowed comp time and have to use personal/sick time for any time off.
I'm so confused and would like to bring this up to the company, but it's so small that I feel there will be reprocussions. Recently there was a mandatory training during unpaid lunch which we didn't get paid for. They bought us food.
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Well, we have hourly (clock in and out) employees as well and it was during their lunch too. Should they have been paid?
So basically because they classified me as exempt, they can treat me as they see fit? It seems like I have no legal rights.