If I have an a full-time exempt employee who changed their schedule to 4 days of the week, how does this effect his benefits?
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If I have an a full-time exempt employee who changed their schedule to 4 days of the week, how does this effect his benefits?
How does this effect his pay, vacation, and other benefits?
Asked on June 21, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Florida
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
Your employee cannot change is schedule without your consent, so you can put him on whatever schedule you want--the employer, not employee, sets the schedule.
If they are working 4 days, not 5, you would typically, and could legally, reduce pay by 1/5; a salaried employee does not lose pay for working fewer hours in a day, but any work day they don't work at all, you can debit their pay by 1/5th their weekly salary. You don't have to do this, but you could.
Vacation and benefits is typically based on hours, not pay: if they are still working the same number of hours, they'd still get the same vacation and benefits. If working fewer hours, pro rate their vacation accrual appropriately and take away insurance if working less than full time hours in total.
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