[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR541.105]

[Page 181]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 541_DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, 
 
                      Subpart B_Executive Employees
 
Sec. 541.105  Particular weight.

    To determine whether an employee's suggestions and recommendations 
are given ``particular weight,'' factors to be considered include, but 
are not limited to, whether it is part of the employee's job duties to 
make such suggestions and recommendations; the frequency with which such 
suggestions and recommendations are made or requested; and the frequency 
with which the employee's suggestions and recommendations are relied 
upon. Generally, an executive's suggestions and recommendations must 
pertain to employees whom the executive customarily and regularly 
directs. It does not include an occasional suggestion with regard to the 
change in status of a co-worker. An employee's suggestions and 
recommendations may still be deemed to have ``particular weight'' even 
if a higher level manager's recommendation has more importance and even 
if the employee does not have authority to make the ultimate decision as 
to the employee's change in status.