I'll start off by saying I'm not sure if what my company is doing is legal or not since I don't know all the ins and outs of labor laws for salary employees. By my gut tells me they are using some shady practices to get out of compensating employees on certain Saturdays.
Basically, my work has a policy (probably just verbal) and I don't think anyone truly knows about it, that says for any salaried (exempt) employee who works additional hours on Saturdays (40+) is eligible for a pay bump for that Saturday worked. That's all fine and dandy but what they don't mention is it needs to be your 6th consecutive day of work. So if a holiday falls on that pay week, you use sick time, have a scheduled vacation day etc. you are ineligible for that pay and will have to work that Saturday for FREE. It feels very wrong in my gut and I don't want to do it anymore.
Am I wrong in this situation since I'm salary or is this some bullshit gray area/loophole my work uses to get away without paying employees?
In USA, PA.