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Exempt vs. non-exempt: The ultimate guide to white collar workers

Insperity

You may feel your administrative assistant is critical to your business. You have a recently promoted office manager who has authority to process and approve payroll, but who also still serves as the receptionist and meets the salary requirement for exempt. This was mentioned earlier, but it’s important enough to recap.

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can I warn people about my horrible boss?

Ask a Manager

I was a legal assistant (she referred to me as an “administrative assistant” on payroll, but as a “paralegal” when billing clients for my time). Also, when you take the bar exam, they write to all your employers to get references, and legal employers are said to carry more weight.

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do I have to wear makeup to look professional, my boss wants “fun” but pointless perks, and more

Ask a Manager

I never worked from home, as my role as a receptionist/administrative assistant isn’t conducive to that. Whatever hassle it would be to correct the name on payroll (and it really shouldn’t take long) is dwarfed by any of those risks. I work at a R1 school as a post award administrator. Nope, they cannot.

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cheating in an office bake-off, my boss is advertising my job because I was out sick, and more

Ask a Manager

I have been at my new job as an administrative assistant for just over two months. ” However, in practice, payroll would make weekly calls to salaried, exempt employees if they hadn’t accumulated at least 40 hours during the previous week. Is this legal? day of PTO. day of PTO.