[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR541.106]

[Page 186]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 541_DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE TERMS ``ANY EMPLOYEE EMPLOYED IN A 
 
                        Subpart B_Interpretations
 
Sec. 541.106  Authority to hire or fire.

    Section 541.1 requires that an exempt executive employee have the 
authority to hire or fire other employees or that his suggestions and 
recommendations as to hiring or firing and as to advancement and 
promotion or any other change of status of the employees who he 
supervises will be given particular weight. Thus, no employee, whether 
high or low in the hierarchy of management, can be considered as 
employed in a bona fide executive capacity unless he is directly 
concerned either with the hiring or the firing and other change of 
status of the employees under his supervision, whether by direct action 
or by recommendation to those to who the hiring and firing functions are 
delegated.