How to classify employees
"To be or not to be that is the question." That's from Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the case of HR, the question you must answer for all of your employees to be or not to be full-time, part-time, hourly, salaried, exempt, or non-exempt, so let's dig into the answers. The most obvious difference between full-time and part-time employees is hours. In most companies, a full-time employee works more than 32 hours per week, while a part-time employee works less than that. Now, let's look at an employee to understand how pay structure and overtime works with full and part-timers.
Let's say Nick is a Receptionist. Whether Nick is a part-time or full-time Receptionist, you can pay him an hourly rate or a salary, so how do you determine which way to pay him. Well, if Nick's hours were constantly pushing him into overtime and his duties meant that he's often staying an extra 15 minutes, hour, or a few hours later than his schedule, you'd be better off paying him hourly because you need him to punch a time-clock to correctly determine his overtime pay.Source: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/administrative-human-resources/how-to-classify-employees