Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Why is voluntary work excluded? Message-ID: Date: 12 Sep 90 16:34:40 GMT References: <3876@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> <1990Sep4.001018.4034@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep10.054830.27039@nmt.edu> <773@idsssd.UUCP> <974@halley.UUCP> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 29 In-reply-to: kidd@halley.UUCP's message of 11 Sep 90 20:54:37 GMT In article <974@halley.UUCP> kidd@halley.UUCP (Dave Kidd) writes: > shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes: > Non-pay status means that we don't get paid and we can't come to work, > even as volunteers. I've been told, though it may not apply to government work, that federal legislation mandates that "non-exempt" (under federal fair labor standards act) workers MUST be paid for every hour worked, whether they "volunteer" or not. I guess to avoid an employer mandating such "voluntary" work to get around minimum wage or overtime standards. Yes, this applies to government work, although the rule is that they must be compensated, not paid. Thus, they either receive overtime pay or compensatory time off (known as comp time). In addition, even those of us who are exempt receive comp time or pay for extra hours, since the civil service is on an hourly basis. I take comp time, since the regulations on pay make the amount I get for overtime barely more than my regular hourly rate and I'd rather have the time off later. However, the no-voluntary-work-during-the-furlough rule that I was discussing applies to exempt and non-exempt alike. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot