Overtime one more time
The wind is still blowing strong here; so far we haven't been able to confirm that it might have been caused by an excess of hot air in Our Nation's Capital. So far all that talk has not led to taking care of protection for overtime pay for more than 8 million American workers: even though both the House and the Senate voted for that protection, the final bill may not make it to a vote before Congress adjourns for the holidays, in which case it would die. Have you contacted your elected representatives about overtime yet?
Capitol police ARE eligible for overtime, and we taxpayers spent more than $70,000 on that during the recent talkathon.
Computer technicians don't generally get overtime pay these days, even though many of them are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with Blackberries and cellphones attached to them at all times and beeping at all hours, disturbing not only the paid workers but anyone within earshot. Various state and federal laws passed since 1996 exempt workers who make at least $27.36 per hour and are "primarily engaged in software development or other independent, creative work." But a class action lawsuit filed earlier this week against Computer Sciences Corp. charges that most computer support workers are not writing programs or "other independent, creative work," and demands back pay for CSC workers as well as others like them at other companies. The day before the suit was filed, CSC announced that its profits were up 16 percent.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:08 PM
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