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There have been several occasions where employers have requested that their
student employees be paid with a lump sum/salary payment rather than an hourly
wage. While there are many cases where this may seem to be the easiest way
to compensate a student, there are actually very few cases where this is
appropriate. Paying a student in a lump sum/salary for a given task or project does
not exempt us from minimum wage requirements or overtime requirements and we are
still required to track student's hours worked. Any request for one-time pays
must be approved by the office of Student Employment & Career Services prior
to making an offer to the student. The requests must be in writing and include
the duties, the actual times to be worked by the student, and the reason you are
requesting a lump sum/salary pay rather than an hourly rate. Again, there are very few
situations where this is appropriate and we are required to scrutinize these
closely.
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