Employment

I am classified as an Exempt Employee (Salaried) in a non-profit organization. I have depleted my sick time and all but .75 vacation hour this year and got sick again and missed 2 full 8:30- 5 days. However, during that week, I worked 31.25 hours, was granted 8 hours comp time and used the final .75 of my vacation. According to the 'powers that be', I should not be counting hours worked outside of the 8:30-5 day therefore, I should not have been paid for 40 hours. Is this correct or not?

I HAVE ACCEPTED A JOB OFFER BY EMAIL. NOW I AM BEING TOLD BY THE LABOR DEPARTMENT THAT IT IS NOT LEGAL AND THAT I NEEDED A HARD COPY

I have a skin care business and I sub lease 2 treatment rooms from the owner of a large hair salon. I have a commercial sublease agreement and a non-compete agreement signed. I utilize his front desk staff to schedule appointments and accept payment after services are rendered. This is all in our agreement and all is working smoothly. My issue is that the owner of the hair salon, (which is the man that I have the sublease agreement with) continues to 'interupt' in the skin care business operations. He complains about my staff, the specials that we run, he has told us to cease operations of certain small services that we provide, such as eyelash tinting. Saying that we are competing with him, even though the services that we offer are not the same as any services that he offers. He even went as far as having his front desk staff call my clients and cancel there pre-booked eyelash tinting services with out my consent. I have angry clients and the girls that work for me are afraid of him. Our business is doing great financially and we pay him a % of our total sales...we are all making money. He just seems to want to sabotage my business. What can I do???

I WAS FIRED FROM MY JOB, IN FEB. OF THE YR. THEY FIRED ME BUT Wouldn't LET ME DRAW UNEMPLOYMENT BECAUSE THEY SAID I WAS A HINDRANCE TO THE PROGRAM. I WORKED ON THE JOB FOR ALMOST THIRTY YEARS. I AM UNABLE TO GET ANOTHER JOB ALTHOUGH I HAVE APPLIED FOR JOBS. I AM UNABLE TO LIVE OFF OF NOTHING . I HAD TO APPLY FOR MY SOCIAL SECURITY IN ORDER TO HALF MAKE IT. I HAVE USED ALL OF MY SAVINGS AND NOW I ONLY HAVE THE SOCIAL SECURITY OF 968.00 A MONTH I CAN NOT LIVE LIKE THIS. I AM SIXTY FOUR YEARS OF AGE AND HAVE A GRANDDAUGHTER WHO IS FOURTEEN LIVING WITH ME.

In the state of Texas can an employer change your pay from hourly to salary without letting the employee know? Employer changed the status from hourly to salary on August 9. I turned in a time sheet last week for 96 hours (in one week August 9-15) The salary is based on a 60 hour work week, with a lower hourly pay rate than what I was making as an hourly employee. Can they do that without me knowing about it and/or signing something? Is there any recourse that I have to get back my hourly wages? Please do not tell me to consult a lawyer. I am trying to get answers now. My husband is on the job in south Texas and threatening to walk off the job if I cannot get him an answer right away.