A Medical Laboratory Supervisor Has Been Spending 20 Hours Per

question 28

Multiple Choice

A medical laboratory supervisor has been spending 20 hours per week working in the lab as a technologist because of a staffing shortage. If she work more than 40 hours per week, the laboratory ____.

• A) pays no overtime because she is an exempt employee
• B) pays overtime only if she puts in more than 40 hours of technologist work
• C) pays overtime of 1.5 times her supervisor salary
• D) pays overtime of 1.5 times a technologist's salary

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Definitions:

Peer Opinions

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Norms

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