What are the most common errors in classifying employees?
A. Employees often do not spend sufficient time on exempt duties to be exempt. For the “executive” and “administrative” exemptions from overtime, you must spend more than half of your work time actually doing exempt duties. For example, someone with the title of “supervisor” who spends little time in performing actual supervisory duties is not exempt and is entitled to overtime pay. Another common misunderstanding is that the legal definition of “professional” is very narrow.
