Question about salaried employees

[Ellarooplus2]

Can salaried RNs be forced to cover hourly shifts (lpn, med tech, CNA) regularly without being paid overtime? I know that salaried employees aren’t typically eligible for overtime but I’m wondering if that changes in cases like this where they are regularly required to cover call off and short staffing holes in the schedules of the hourly employees in addition to their regular salaried employee duties? 

[verene, MSN]

This will depend on your specific contract. Many salaried positions do not include overtime pay as the expectation is you work until the work is done - however little or lot of time that takes. 

Other positions do allow for "bonus pay"  some other means of compensating for time over contracted salaried hours. 

It may also depend if providing this coverage is considered part of "regular salaried duties" as per contract or if this is separated and going above/beyond that expectation and contracted duties. 

[TheMoonisMyLantern, ADN, LPN, RN]

1 hour ago, verene said:

This will depend on your specific contract. Many salaried positions do not include overtime pay as the expectation is you work until the work is done - however little or lot of time that takes. 

Other positions do allow for "bonus pay"  some other means of compensating for time over contracted salaried hours. 

It may also depend if providing this coverage is considered part of "regular salaried duties" as per contract or if this is separated and going above/beyond that expectation and contracted duties. 

This ^ unfortunately many employers will require salaried employees to cover hourly positions. I have known of some employers that permitted their salaried nurses to get overtime if they were working the floor, which I think is the right thing to do.