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Changing salaried employees to hourly & exempt “professional” employees

Our association library is considering changing some librarian positions from salaried “professional” to hourly. Is that legal?
Labor Law Section 191 (Frequency of payments) and Libraries

You have asked if a special legislative district library and other types of public libraries must follow New York State Labor Law Section 191 (Labor Law Article 6).

Name of Employee Personnel Policy

Should what we think of as the personnel policy be called Employee Handbook or Personnel Policy?

Sometime in the past, legal counsel advised a library system I was involved in, that the term "Employee Handbook" is correct. The document under now review at my library has what amounts to the rules of employment - typical sections about what the library provides, what we expect the employee to do etc. and does have a page acknowledging receipt of the document.

So what should it be called?

Thank you!