<prompt> Human: This could totally be the wrong subreddit. Im just looking for some answers. Recently, my employer has required for all salary employees at our business to work 44 hours a week, 88 hours a pay period in order to receive our full paycheck. I spoke quickly with a lawyer and apparently that is completely within his rights to do that. Now, he recently added an new clause to it, requiring to work a specific schedule that he wrote out. Meaning that each week my 44 hours has turned into 50 hours plus. From my understanding as long as I show up each day and get my hours, he isnt allowed to request specifically how to do that. Just a little confused and honestly havent been able to find any answers yet. EDIT: I spoke with a lawyer. Apparently my employer is well within his rights to request a certain schedule or a certain amount of hours. However, as uswalsh411 pointed out, he is not allowed to dock my pay whether or not I hit my hours. I appreciate everyones advice and thoughts. To those of you in similar situations, lets just go ahead and overthrow the workforce and rebel. Sound good? Awesome. Everyone meet at the clubhouse. Bring brownies. And beer.  <response>: Unless there is a very good reason to stick around - use this as a great indicator of the employers true colors. They will use you like a pawn to get what they think will make them the most profits.I work in IT and its common for salary employees to be expected to work overtime. If there is an abnormal compensation package like I have stock options I weigh that out with how much of my personal time is impacted by the job. I had an employer pull this kindof stuff once. They wanted 50 hours a week present in the office and you had to submit an hourly plan of how you would achieve that. I did this and also submitted my resume to a bunch of recruiters - it didnt take long.Another thing to consider is that your hourly rate reduces when this happens. Say for example you make 50kyear. Divide this by 2080 40 hoursweek 52 weeks a year 24.04hour. If you are asked to work 50 hoursweek you divide by 2600 instead which means you make 19.23hour now. Also depending on your industry, this is a good question to ask in the interview. I always preface this with wanting to help during crunch time, but typically your workload should be such that you reasonably can perform the task in a 40 hour week. 