<prompt> Human: I posted earlier today about being confused as to my status of hourly or salaried.Well, no wonder I was confused, so were my bosses. One attorney thought I was salaried and one thought I was hourly.They sort of gave me the choice but strongly promoted the salary option. They said if I choose hourly I wont get any PTO and when the office closes I will not be paid either. I have no idea how much over-time I will be working. They have already asked that I come in Sunday for accounting and billing training.The issue I am having now is that according to the DOL paralegals are non-exempt and the attorneys I work for are arguing that I am in fact exempt despite what the DOL says. Right now my job duties are a very secretarial, and less paralegal. But my superiors are saying they are training me to be in a more managerial position so I am therefore exempt. I feel like they are trying to have their cake and eat it too. I cannot be both entry level and therefore paid very little based on paralegal pay, and at the same time be exempt from overtime pay based on the job I will be doing in the future highly skilled, independent critical thinking, etc. Should I just let go of the non-exempt status and agree to salary?  <response>: Even with being salaried, paralegals typically get paid ot wages for their time over 40 hours. It sounds like your employers are trying to take advantage of you and not pay you for your time 