Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 875 - Labor Services Division › Minimum Wage › Chapter 218 - Employees Employed in a Bona Fide Executive, Administrative, or Professional Capacity (INCLUDING ANY EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED IN THE CAPACITY OF ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL OR TEACHER IN ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOLS) , or in the Capacity of Outside Salesperson › Rule 875-218.201 - Types of Administrative Employees

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
(1)
Exemption as administrative
				employee.
Three types of employees are described in 218.2(3) who, if
				they meet the other tests in rule 218.2(91D), qualify for exemption as
				"administrative" employees.
a.
Executive and administrative assistants (the assistant to a proprietor
				or to an executive or administrative employee).
Typical titles of
				persons in this group are executive assistant to the president, confidential
				assistant, executive secretary, assistant to the general manager,
				administrative assistant and, in retail or service establishments, assistant
				manager and assistant buyer.
b.
Staff employees.
(1)
				Employees included are those who can be described as staff rather than line
				employees, or as functional rather than department heads. They include among
				others employees who act as advisory specialists to the management. Typical
				examples of advisory specialists are tax experts, insurance experts, sales
				research experts, wage-rate analysts, investment consultants, foreign exchange
				consultants, and statisticians.
(2)
				Also included are persons in charge of a so-called functional department, which
				may frequently be a one-person department. Typical examples are credit
				managers, purchasing agents, buyers, safety directors, personnel directors, and
				labor relations directors.
c.
Those who perform special
				assignments.
(1) These are persons
				who perform special assignments, often away from the employer's place of
				business. Typical titles of such persons are lease buyers, field
				representatives of utility companies, location managers of motion picture
				companies, and district gaugers for oil companies.
(2) This classification also includes
				employees whose special assignments are performed entirely or partly inside
				their employer's place of business. Examples are special organization planners,
				customers' brokers in stock exchange firms, so-called account executives in
				advertising firms and contact or promotion persons of various types.
(2)
Job titles insufficient as
				yardsticks.
a. The employees for
				whom exemption is sought under the term "administrative" have extremely diverse
				functions and a wide variety of titles. A title alone is of little or no
				assistance in determining the true importance of an employee to the employer or
				the employee's exempt or nonexempt status.
b. The exempt or nonexempt status of any
				particular employee must be determined on the basis of the employee's duties,
				responsibilities and salary.
(3)
Academic administration.
Individuals engaged in the overall academic administration of an elementary or
				secondary school system include the superintendent or other head of the system
				and those assistants whose duties are primarily concerned with administration
				of matters as curriculum, quality and methods of instructing, measuring and
				testing the learning potential and achievement of students, establishing and
				maintaining academic and grading standards, and other aspects of the teaching
				program. In individual school establishments those engaged in academic
				administration include the principal, vice principals and department heads who
				are responsible for the operation of the school.