Am I being taken advantage of?
I just got hired as an AM technician and got offered a salaried role of 23.50 an hour. I've been there a few weeks and just received my second paycheck which was missing 10 hours of OT from staying late for trainings and helping turnaround our SLM printers.
I contacted the finance department and they said "you are salaried any overtime would have to be approved by your boss before you work the hours to be payed". My boss is dragging his feet sending the email explaining that I need to be payed at least "straight time".
From my understanding AM technician roles are classified as blue collar and are required to be compensated by time and a half, the other 2 techs I work with have also not been payed overtime (they were the ones who brought the FLSA laws to my attention).
I really like this job but I'm naive and have minimal work experience with government contracts, can anyone weigh in on if this is fishy or not?
I work in an at will state if that matters.
Edit: I submitted a ticket with the DOL to have them inform me of my rights and resources available to me in my state. Thanks for the advice guys.
I'm going to refrain from lawyers for now because I don't want to escalate things too much, my employer is very connected and they would hear about it.