$20.$ Smitty just started as a physician$$s assistant $($PA$)$ in an urgent care facility located in Philadelphia, PA$.$ She can do pretty much everything a doctor can do and typically sees the more routine patients. She studied long and hard to be a PA$,$ passed her board certification exam last May, and is still paying back her student loans. She doesn$$t mind those loan payments too much, though, because they were an investment that enabled her to do what she loves and make a pretty good starting salary doing it$.$ She makes a salary of $$88,200$ per year with two weeks$$ vacation and great medical benefits.

Smitty takes her daughter to school in the mornings, so she starts her day later than most others in the urgent care, but she also stays later to see the $$dinner$-$time$$ cases. Sally, a new director for the facility, sends out a memo that all workers except the doctors need to work a full $8$ hour shift if they are scheduled to work on a given day. Sally also installs a time clock in the staff room and tells all workers $($except the doctors$)$ they must clock in and clock out. She states she is not approving any overtime pay, so no one may work more than $8$ hours a day. Sally concludes the memo by stating that pay will be docked if less than $8$ hours is worked on a given day.

Wow, that$$s some policy change for Smitty! She doesn$$t know whether to celebrate or protest $$ lots of days she doesn$$t get through with work until she$$s worked ten hours or more! There are days, though, if the patient schedule is light, that she can get out early and have dinner with her kids. What does this new policy mean for Smitty?

a$.$ She is a non$-$exempt employee, so she is going to need to adjust her schedule to work eight hours a day or face having her pay docked or putting in for unauthorized overtime

b$.$ She is a non$-$exempt employee, so she will be subject to these rules along with everyone else

c$.$ She is an exempt employee, so she will need to work eight hours a shift or face being docked; she doesn$$t get overtime so the ten$-$hour days are not an issue

d$.$ She is a non$-$exempt worker so she is entitled to be paid for her overtime whether Sally likes it or not

e$.$ If Sally applies these rules to Smitty, Sally is treating an exempt employee as non$-$exempt and thus will lose the benefit of the exemption and will need to pay Smitty overtime