Exempt employee working and hourly job

mdhrvp

Do to the nursing shortage I have found several of my Nursing Managers(exempt) who are putting in extra hours to cover a shortage, over their 80, but are charging them to another job as an hourly employee. On their check they are getting paid, for example, a total of 96 hours -- 80 hours for their regular exempt position and 16 hours at another rate in a non-exempt positon.
Can an exempt employee work additional non-exempt hours and still remain exempt? My feeling is that they cannot?
Has anyone had a similar experience?

LeeR

my understanding is that as soon as the exempt employee works hourly then all hours worked would be considered on an hourly basis for determining any overtime owed. Got this from a DOL investigator at a conference a few weeks back.

System

Don't they have to limit the percentage of time that they work non-exempt labor to stay exempt?