Another in our series of answers to questions from our September 28 webinar on wage and hour law in higher education:

Q. If an exempt employee only works a half day, i.e. they go home sick at noon, and they have both sick and vacation leave available, can we require that they use four hours of leave time to "make up" the lost four hours? Or, since they are exempt and there can be no variance for hours, must they be paid their full regular pay and not use leave time?