Tag: Deductions from Pay

Ask the Expert: Must Employee Pay Back Additional PTO Time?

An employee was out on PTO for medical reasons. She was out longer than PTO was available but the company paid her anyway. Now that she has returned, they want to make the employee pay back the additional PTO time. Is this allowed? Since they didn’t make this a condition of the unpaid PTO being […]

Exempt Vs. Non-Exempt: What are the Rules? (Q&A Part 2 of 2)

In a recent BLR webinar, Austin E. Smith lent his expertise to tell us about some of the challenges employers face when dealing with exempt vs. non-exempt employee classifications. For example, to meet the requirements for an administrative exemption, an employee must pass the “primary duty” test, which says that their primary duties must include […]