re: Work overtime question

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He agreed to Exempt Status, game over..:

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A company I used to work for had classified a certain position as Exempt, no OT paid.

A person in that position got pissed off and called the Fed Labor Dept. and reported it. The Feds did an investigation and questioned a whole bunch of the people in that position. The Feds ruled that OT should have been paid to those positions, and since it was impossible to determine how much OT was owed to each person, the company and Feds agreed to a formula that depended on a couple of different factors, the most important being how long you worked in that position. Some people got $15,000 settlements.

And when the checks were disbursed, the employee had to sign a statement saying that they were accepting the check and waiving all claims to OT from the past. And the statement included a clause that stated that in accepting that money the employee would not be discriminated against by the company, and if they felt they were, they should contact the Feds about it.

Edit: I should add that the people in this position routinely worked 50 to 60 hours a week. It was a d at paced, stressful job that would be almost impossible to do properly just working 40 hours.