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No, but that does not mean they won't try. I have worked jobs (back in 2008) where you worked from 8am to 9pm normally. However usually those company's prefer
by damm 11y ago
No, but that does not mean they won't try. I have worked jobs (back in 2008) where you worked from 8am to 9pm normally.
However usually those company's prefer the greener type of employee who is willing to take this kind of abuse. Get a Salaried position and they whip and beat you to get the work out of you.
President, CTO's can generally spend a lot of time working in order to keep everything going.
40 hour work week is the LAW in the US FYI; if they are asking you to work 65 hours a week and you are salaried. You are entitled to overtime pay.
Employers love it when employee's don't know the law; it allows them to get away with not paying them overtime when they are legally entitled.
- nullundefined 11y agoI thought "salaried" overtime only applied to people that made less than a certain amount of money annually. If my memory serves me correctly, I heard it was about $50,000. If that's the case I would not be eligible, but if it applies to all salaried employees regardless of pay, then that's very interesting...
- NetStrikeForce 11y agoI don't know what would be worse, that you're right or that you believe that's true. Unfortunately I don't know the US federal and state laws, so I can't really tell you if you're right :) but I can tell you that in the rest of the western world, 40 hours (or even less) are law for everyone, including CEO, CTO and whatever C level you throw at it. Anything after that has to be paid overtime or you're breaking the law. The shepherds will be brutal as long as the sheep are docile.
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- kspaans 11y agoDo salaried programmers/developers/software/engineers in the US get overtime pay? In Canada's province of Ontario there is a specific exception in labour law saying that these kind of salaried employees are exempt from overtime pay: http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_government_it.php http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/tools/srt/coverage_go... http://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/010285#BK17 http://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/010285#BK17 (I haven't found definitive answers for other provinces.) Edit: spelling
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- hwstar 11y agoIf they are an "Exempt" employee, then they don't get overtime. Exempt comes from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The US is way behind the curve when compared to other developed countries. I'd like to see the FSLA updated to the same level of protection as the EU Working Time Directive.
- logn 11y agoMost programmers etc. in California can claim overtime if they make less than $84K. Nationally, it's $23K.
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- hwstar 11y agoThere are a lot of loopholes companies can use to avoid the minimum salary. See the link below. The minimum hourly rate is $41.00 for Exempt computer software professionals according to that link: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=E#employee%20in%20the%20computer%20software%20field http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=E#employee%2...