Professional989
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- Maryland
I recently started a new job as a full time exempt employee. My company has a 30 day policy for being eligible for benefits including holiday pay.
They were trying to deduct pay from me for Christmas, even though they are closed and I cannot go into work. I questioned this and they instead forced me to go negative on PTO. Is this illegal to do this for exempt employees?
After all of this went down I started to look into federal law a little more and found a section on salary and exempt employees. It essentially says you cannot deduct pay from an exempt employee as long as they had worked some time in that pay period if the day off is due to something on the companies side.
Am I in the wrong while pushing back on this? The HR manager actually said it would be illegal to pay me for a holiday I did not earn (probation period) while the internet is saying something else.
They were trying to deduct pay from me for Christmas, even though they are closed and I cannot go into work. I questioned this and they instead forced me to go negative on PTO. Is this illegal to do this for exempt employees?
After all of this went down I started to look into federal law a little more and found a section on salary and exempt employees. It essentially says you cannot deduct pay from an exempt employee as long as they had worked some time in that pay period if the day off is due to something on the companies side.
Am I in the wrong while pushing back on this? The HR manager actually said it would be illegal to pay me for a holiday I did not earn (probation period) while the internet is saying something else.