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Law traversing US Senate to eliminate OT for hourly IT workers.
- anigbrowl 15y agoI like that it's called the 'CPU act.' However, it doesn't really abolish overtime; if you look at the original law that it's amending, most computer professionals were exempt from the overtime pay requirement anyway. This amendment slightly expands and clarifies the definition of what constitutes an 'IT professional' by including things like 'debugging' and 'database' administration as well as 'system' administration. It strikes me as more of a maintenance release than a major change to working conditions. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode29/usc_sec_29_00000213----000-.html http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode29/usc_sec_29_0...
- MPSimmons 15y agoAs I understand it, it also specifies hourly employees, which the original definition of "professional" didn't.
- anigbrowl 15y agoYes it did, see sec. 213(a)(17) at the link above. It defines them as professional, which is new, but they were already exempted if they made more than $28 an hour (which threshold hasn't changed).
- MPSimmons 15y agoSo after spending a cozy hour reading law, what they're doing is broadening the number of people who are exempted from being paid overtime to include more IT workers, but still only those who make more than $27.63/hour (which is, apparently, a lot).