professional employee

professional employee
Broadly, any employee whose duties call for the practice of a profession. For the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employee whose primary duties consist of the performance of work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in the field of science or learning, or original and creative in character in a recognized field of artistic endeavor, and whose work requires the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance, is predominantly intellectual and varied in character, and is generally compensated on a salary or fee basis in a specified amount. 29 USC Appx § 5431.3.

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