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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).

Minimum Wage for Public Library Employees

We have 12 employees of the Library. 3 are salaried the rest are minimum wage. Are Library employees subject to NYS DOL Minimum Wage Law as well as the Wage Orders for salaried employees? We are unsure where we would fall. Our funding comes from taxes/aid/grants. We are looking for an answer as soon as you are able as we are preparing our budget for next year. Thank you so much for your help.