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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?"
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The problem with your pronouncement is that the only means you can be paid for overtime is in $$$. That takes away the ability to pay by other means, like services or (even better) time off.
I worked about 160 hours a week for a few weeks in January. But I'm working some VERY relaxed hours now... I don't even mind that kind of trade as time is much more precious to me than $$$.
Also, I like not having to sit there in order to be paid... if I'm done with my work I like to be able to leave early instead of sitting around so that I'll be paid. Being on salary is not all disadvantage as you make it out to be, it can be taken advantage of the employer but if you look out for yourself you can balance things out.
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...for helping to accelerate the export all the rest of the programming jobs overseas. Globalization is here, but thanks to short-sighted laws like this, California software professionals are going to feel the bite a little sooner than the rest of us.
At the very least, I think you might see quite a few firms picking up and moving operations to Utah and Nevada in the near future.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley
The US doesn't provide military support to anyone other than Israel (our 51st state!) If we didn't do so much to make people hate us, we probably wouldn't need to piss so much away on our military either.
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