Re: Arrow Electronics

In article <_gBNh.11849$__3.574@edtnps90>, Homer J Simpson wrote:

"Don Klipstein" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:slrnf0c2r9.m6r.don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hour count in workweeks for engineers in this area since upticked - I
have heard a few horror stories. Those looking to get into engineering
jobs in this area - please check out risks of not getting time-and-a-half
for working over 40 hours a week, or even being paid a salary by a time
unit of at least a week while there is lack of upper limit of hours per
pay period that you need to work to stay in good standing!

If you ever get one of those jobs where you are being screwed, keep your own
notebook to log actual times started and ended each day.

Apply for the overtime and keep any documentation that it was refused.

After you leave the job, apply to your local labor board for all of the
overtime you didn't get.

Fun!

I think that at least in current enforcement practice plenty of
engineers are in a classification that managers are in as far as OT is
concerned. There is such as thing as "FLSA exempt", which was originally
supposed to be for managers and not many others maybe nobody except
managers, and those got paid by the week rather than by the hour. It
seems to me that "professionals" also got to be FLSA-exempt.

What about associate lawyers at big law firms paid by salary and
expected to generate 2400-2500 billable hours per year?

This is in the USA that I am talking about...

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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