Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Just from what you have said, your employer is in violation of two key rules for making an employee exempt. 1. And exempt employee must be paid a salary that is at least 2x the minimum wage. That means unless your salary works out to at least $160/day, you are not exempt. And that goes up next year, and every year after until the minimum wage reaches $15/hr, at which point you will have to be paid a salary that works out to at least $240/day to remain exempt. 2. The smallest unit of pay/deduction must be a full day. Therefore if you work any part of a day, you must be paid for that day in full at the rate your salary works out to per day. There are other requirements that must be met as well, but I think these two violations are all you really need to know at this point.