IBM Responds to Overtime Lawsuits With 15% Salary Cut

bcmbyte writes "IBM in recent months has been hit with lawsuits filed on behalf of thousands of U.S. employees who claim the company illegally classified them as exempt from federal and state overtime statutes in order to avoid paying them extra whenever they worked more than 40 hours per week. The good news for those workers is that IBM now plans to grant them so-called "non-exempt" status so they can collect overtime pay. The bad news: IBM will cut their base salaries by 15% to make up the difference."

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Re:They need a Union

[beavis88]

Let me start by saying that I am a very strong Republican conservative

Woah...someone call the EPA...we've got a confirmed sighting of an endangered species here :P

OT: nitpick.

[zippthorne]

I know you've got a low ID,
old man (or woman),
but there's no need to man-
ually enter carriage returns
while you type, like some
kind of old timey typewrit-
er. The input box is wider
than the comment will be
displayed, so it forces awk-
ward line wrapping with
hang-
ing words every other line.

You can't possibly anticipate how wide everyone's display is when you type the comment, not the least because nesting means that every comment will have a different width on the same computer. It is much better to let the computer handle the wrapping, especially since it can re-flow text to fit the width available dynamically. Say no to hard returns.