education administrator on contract-pay deducted

[kymphotog]

I am an education administrator on contract with a private non profit school in Oklahoma. Salaried contract yr round. I am currently completing my PhD in my field, education administration and have to be on campus at my university one day a week. In order to make up the time I stay late and come in early, working on average 10 to 11 hours a day. I normally work around 9 hours a day just due to the nature of the job. The board decided to dock my pay since I am gone on this one day a week. The amount is over $500.00 dollars a month. Needless to say, I am furious. Do I have any legal rights concerning this pay deduction? They took my annual salary divided it by 52 weeks, then by 5 days to get a daily rate to deduct. Of course when I work 10 to 20 hours over the recommended 40, I do not receive any extra or overtime based on the fact that I am a salary employee however, the time off should not effect it either...HELP!!!!

 

[presutin]

What does your contract state regarding working hours? Is there also something addressing schedule changes?

 

[cbg]

Even an exempt employee can legally have their pay docked under certain circumstances, and taking a full day off for personal reasons is one of them. I agree completely that if you are working that many hours it is petty, at the very least, to dock you but it is not prohibited by law under the circumstances described.

I agree with presutin that you will need to see how your contract addresses this. It's not illegal, but it might violate the terms of your contract. We can't say for sure because we haven't read the contract.