My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: New York
Hi. I have been working for my employer for about a year and a half. I am in a non management position but am salaried. My agreed upon work week is 40 hours. However in the time I have been employed with this company I was required to work approximately 500 OT hours which are all documented. I was never paid for these hours.
I asked a friend who is an attorney to research this for me and he said he thought regardless of me being salaried I should get OT based on FLSA. Low and behold I received a letter from my company the other day that said I am a non exempt employee and entitled to time and a half OT over 40 hours.
My question is how I proceed in collecting the retroactive 500 hours of OT. My friend thinks an attorney should write a demand letter to the company but I don't want to get fired. Is it better if a lawyer writes a letter or I just ask myself? Does anyone think I'm not entitled to the retroactive pay?
I want to be 100% sure before I Rick the boat.
Thanks for any input!

