Two jobs equal two separate pay methods
DoubleR
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Can a city employee serve in two separate rolls working full time as a city clerk and part-time as the city treasurer. Previously this employee served full time as a city clerk a non-exempt position. Our part-time city treasurer recently submitted his resignation and the mayor would like to roll the city treasurers duties into the city clerk position. The city treasurer typicaly spent about two hours a week performing this task, was paid an annual salary and considered exempt. It was suggested that the city clerk continue to receive her hourly rate for city clerk and also recieve the annual salary that the treasurer received. The city clerk would continue to be paid on a biweekly basis for the duties she performs as the city clerk. In addition she would receive a one time annual payment for the duties she performed as the treasurer. I am a city counsel member who works full time as an HR professional and this mixing of the two positions with different methods of payment for wages appears to be in conflict with the FLSA. My concern is how can you absolutely separate out the time spent performing the duties of the clerk versus the time spent performing the duties of the treasurer. What I am unsure of is if there are any special quirks in the FLSA for city governments. This is a small town with a population of less than 3,000.
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LivinDon has made an excellent point about the need to segregate duties. Examine the duties of the two different positions very carefully to make sure that any oversight that one job had over the other, is taken on by a different position.
Things like one person logging in receipts, another making deposits and someone else reconciling bank accounts. Combining these duties can allow lots of money to disappear.