The Fair Labor Standards Act has not been revised for quite some time, however, working culture has changed substantially.
This law protects the rights of hourly workers, quite extensively, however, provides little protections for salary-exempt workers.
There are many gray areas in the law, which favors the employer over the employee.
A salaried-exempt employee should be entitled to there full pay each week, Isn't that what a salary is?
Salaried-exempt employees should not be expected to work unreasonable hours to get paid, after all they do not get paid any overtime, and the company should not have the right to fire someone for simply refusing to work extra hours.
Salaried exempt employees should not become slaves of the company, just because of the classification