IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules

bjarvis354 writes "The San Diego Union Tribune is reporting that the Department of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao unveiled new rules that seem to specifically target IT workers and other white collar workers for exemption from overtime pay. The Oneonta Daily Star claims that 'According to new exemption tests, the employee isn't guaranteed overtime pay if primary duties involve office or non-manual work,' and 'Computer employees are not guaranteed overtime pay if they make $455 a week, or if their hourly rate is $27.63. Affected employees include computer systems analysts, programmers, software engineers or anyone with a similar title.'"

Comments

Republicans Hate Workers

[Greyfox]

News at 11. That's why this year I'm going to vote with my... vote... for a regime that's more in line with my goals.

Re:If you don't get paid for something

[SpaceCadetTrav]

I'm sorry that your work as an individual is not valuable, but please do not bring the rest of us down with your union.

Re:If you don't get paid for something

[GrimCracker]

Yes, that's what's going to help keep IT jobs in America: start an IT union. Brilliant! Make it even less desirable to hire American computer workers!

Re:As the market fundamentalists like to say...

[bmedwar]

freedom and innovation is why children don't work 14+ hour days in the US these days. I give zero credit to unions. Unions create a class of poor/unskilled workers that can't find jobs, b/c employers can afford to pay the union-inflated price for their unskilled labor. So they are forced to live off welfare. Without unions there would be no need for welfare.

Re:You can still get overtime

[0bjectiv3]

You are an idiot.

Hmmm, pride comes before a fall?

[hattig]

I see a lot of posts here wittering on about how they'd never stoop to join a union and that they are clever enough to sort this out on their own, then bitching about the 60 hour week they do without compensation.

You're inside waiting for a compile, or helping someone click an icon, half dead ... whilst the "stupid" unionised workers in other industries are out drinking, getting the women (or men, if you bend that way / are female) and having fun.

Tell me again who the clever people are?

Loyalty to the rich

[lysium]

repeat after me: my interests are not the same as those of the rich

Unforunately, at least 40% of the population disagrees. They believe, perhaps unconciously, that if they align themselves with the interests of the rich, goodness will trickle down to them, or they will eventually be recognized and rewarded for their loyalty. They (or more precisely, their children) will rise into the Society of the Rich. This is how poor immigrants are deceived into becoming Republicans (besides their religious conservatism, but that is another story).

Might as well call yourself a dog waiting for scraps at Master's table. But then again, I must just be a liberal unionloving pinko....what do I know.

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Re:Actually, this story is WRONG

[op00to]

Start off by reading the WSJ or other financial newspaper. If you can follow this, maybe you should look into an Economics class. This is all very simple, low-level stuff that freshman college students learn in Econ 101...

Re:wealthy people should be taxed a LOT more than

[maxpublic]

Rich people and high income earners should be highly taxed, e.g., 50% taxation for 200K of income and unearned income, with progressive gradations on up from there.

Thank you, Mr. Socialist Scumbag. Yep, here in America being rich is a crime - at least among the stupid fucks who aren't rich and are jealous of those who are.

The 'rich', whatever definition you use to define that term, should *never* be taxed more than anyone else. Not only does this fly in the very face of what America supposedly stands for - freedom to do with *your* resources as *you* please, and not what some fucking liberal loon thinks you should do with them - but it's also completely nonsensical. If I pay ten times as much in taxes will my broken sewer line be fixed ten times faster than yours will? Will holes in my street be paved with ten times the skill and care? Will I get ten times the service if I need to apply for a construction permit for an addition to my home? Do I get to skip to the head of the line at DMV because I pay so much more?

If I don't get ten times the service that you do, and I don't put ten times the burden on the GOVERNMENT BUILT AND TAX SUPPORTED infrastructure as you, then why the fuck am I paying ten time as much in taxes? Because some jealous little shit who's angry that he's not me wants to punish me for leading the life that he doesn't have?

Let's change our motto from 'land of opportunity' to 'land of vengeful little pissants who think wealth is criminal'.

Max