A New Poll on Overtime Pay Changes!
Before you go to find the results on the impact of the overtime pay changes, why don’t you guess what % of respondents gave each of the following answers to this question: “Under the new overtime regulations, how many of your employees were re-classified as exempt or nonexempt?”
The categories are: None, Less than 5%, 5-10%, 11-25%, 26-50%, and more than 50%.
C’mon, don’t cheat; try to guess before you click “Continued” below!
OK, I hope you didn’t cheat and look ahead. Here are the answers below, when I last checked:
None: 59% (438)
Less than 5%: 28% (214)
5-10%: 3% (28)
11-25%: 1% (8)
26-50%: 0% (4)
More than 50%: 0% (2)
Based on 740 replies; the response categories also included “still working on it” and “not sure.”
Want to take the poll and see the most recent results? Go here.
So, what do you think?
Not surprised, except by how few were in categories of “still working on it” and “not sure.” (Perhaps attributable to being a somewhat biased sample in favor of people on top of HR enough and with enough time to do things like worry about overtime classification and read HR publications!)
The worst possible outcome, IMHO, would be if Congress or the courts reversed course on this reform, so the time and money spent learning and applying the new rules is all for naught.
By the way, our modest little poll on the same subject, hosted by a third party freebie blog-poll service, vanished into thin air. When last seen, as I recall, we had fairly similar results. A question not asked in this poll or ours is whether anyone reclassified exempt was given a pay raise to compensate, as opposed to being forced to take a pay cut due to loss of overtime pay (as assumed to be the case by those opposing the new rules). Hmm . . . maybe I’ll put THAT into a new poll . . .