Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws?

Gizmo Kid asks: "How many of you Californian, full-time, software programmers are getting paid overtime? From what I understand, a law in California, passed within the last two years, says that software engineers who make less than $41/hour [PDF version] are required to be paid for overtime? Are your employers following the rules? I'm not sure mine is?"

Comments

Re:Mandatory overtime payment

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait; you can be paid for overtime?

seriously

[sawilson]

I'd be quiet if I were you and just be happy that
your manager occasionally comes down from on high
to mingle with the commoners. Make sure to kiss
the feet of your corporate masters who see fit to
pay you at all. Remember, you are just a smartass
know it all computer person and people like you are
literally a dime a dozen in India. You'll bend over
if you know what's good for ya. :)
THANK YOU FOR LOOKING OUT FOR US CORPORATE AMERICA!!

Re:l33t

[jaavaaguru]

Yeah... Homework*1.5.

Re:overtime issues

[DEBEDb]

And another guy is -normal- (not even genius), and it takes him 3 hours to do a similar job.

3 hours to write "Hello World" in Perl is normal?

HR

[wowbagger]

Now they don't even call it "Human Resources" - they call it HR.

They've removed even the Human part of it. You are just a single letter.

I just wonder how long until they rename it "MeatWare Exploitation"