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IBM Responds to Overtime Lawsuits With 15% Salary Cut

Posted by samzenpus on from the give-with-one-hand-and-take-with-the-other dept.

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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  1. Free market by mi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nobody forces anyone to work. No one is entitled to any particular salary.

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    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  2. WTF? by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Is someone making them work there? They're salaried workers, working in a reasonably high-paying field. Yea, there is stress, yea there are long hours...What's your point?

    If they don't like the pay, they should do something else for a living.

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    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
  3. Re:Typical. by BigGerman · · Score: 0, Troll

    And this is exactly why it is silly to compare a discussion board running on MySQL to real enterprise system running on real enterprise database. In that env, people simply cannot tolerate disappearing records.