Wage & Hour: How Do We Handle Disaster Pay for Nonexempt and Exempt Workers?

We have both a construction staff and an office staff, and we're trying to put together a policy for paying employees in the event of an emergency. What happens if the construction staff needs to be sent home during inclement weather or the office staff and upper management can't work because their computers are down? What if we're forced to completely shut down? How would pay be determined for nonexempt as well as exempt employees in these kinds of circumstances? . . . (to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.)