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    Default Overtime and Exempt Status

    My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: Iowa

    I have a question concerning overtime law and exempted employment. I work as a salaried employee (2100/month) going door to door outside collecting signatures and informing voters about ballot efforts. My question is if I qualify for overtime or if I fall under one of the exempted categories? I am not actually selling anything but just talking with voters. Thanks!

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    Default Re: Overtime and Exempt Status

    Have your read the Fair Labor Standards Act?

    Go read it ... all the nuances are there .. its very case by case specific & your posting does not tell all one needs to know.

    Your state law may also supplement the FLSA but the FLSA is the first place to start.

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    Default Re: Overtime and Exempt Status

    May I ask how many hours a week you work?

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    Default Re: Overtime and Exempt Status

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    May I ask how many hours a week you work?
    Usually around 60. 11-9 6 days a week, sometimes 7.

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    Default Re: Overtime and Exempt Status

    There are something like 100+ exempt positions. When most people think of an exempt employee, they think of the so-called "white collar" exemptions, but those are by no means all.

    The website below will walk you through how to determine if your position qualifies to be exempt or if you are a non-exempt employee who is due overtime.

    However, using minimum wage (which is all either Federal or state law requires that you receive) $2100 is more than you would receive for a four week period of 60 hours a week, if you were paid on a hourly/overtime basis. Not a lot more, I grant you. But at minimum wage for 40 hours a week, plus 20 hours a week of overtime, you would earn $2030 over four weeks. (Yes, I know that a month is not always exactly four weeks.) So I'm not sure how much you would gain if you determined you were non-exempt; that's something you would have to decide for yourself.

    http://www.dol.gov/elaws/overtime.htm

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