She is exempt – that is the company is exempt from paying her overtime. It is called the ‘creative clause.’“Under the constitution, federal la...w ordinarily trumps state law. That is, whatever the federal government sets as the foundation, the states must follow. Labor law is different. Federal labor law is only the framework. States may alter the law so long as it is more beneficial to the worker than federal law. It’s why the feds set the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour but our state can make us. Every chance I got I would offer my help in the hopes that she would find some way to repay me.I was married at the time and I had recently found out that my wife crossed the line of good wife behavior. I thought to myself, why should she get to have all the fun? It wasn't her first time getting flagged for monogamously challenged behavior. The funny thing was that this coworker, let's call her Jan, saw my wife's little indiscretion at a restaurant where they were celebrating one of her. “Remember we are going to the hospital this morning.”“I haven’t forgotten.” Said his father with another long sigh. “I’ll do it now."Hearing his father starting to get up, Gabe quickly (and quietly) scooted off to his room.**********************************************************************************************************An hour later, the Smith family was up and about."Gabe, we are just popping off to the hospital. I don’t when we will be back but I do expect you to have your homework. That’s all.” She couldn’t help but blush. Kendra chuckled. “Yeah. I bet.” “It might go further. I don’t know. But honestly, if it doesn’t look like what it’s supposed to look like, you know, in my head, then I’ll be hightailing it out of there so fast it’ll make his head spin.” “How?” “Huh?” “I mean, how would you get out of there? You don’t have a car.” Elaine hadn’t given it that much thought. “Look, I know what you are going to say, but if he’s a nice guy he’ll stick.