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Title: No Overtime for IT Wokers
Post by: ralph on December 09, 2011, 08:01:11 AM

This is bad news even for us the in telecom industry.

Here in the US a Senator is proposing cutting all overtime pay for IT workers.
Now before you say "I'm in telecom not in IT." just remember that everything we touch now is on servers and reading the proposal it looks like it you work on servers you'll be included.

Here's the link for the related Info World article: 
www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/no-overtime-it-occupy-the-data-center-181183?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-12-08 (http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/no-overtime-it-occupy-the-data-center-181183?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-12-08)

Ralph

Title: Re: No Overtime for IT Wokers
Post by: brantn on December 09, 2011, 11:39:48 AM

So what is going to happen when all the IT people leave the virus sitting at 5 when they hit their 8 hours? I know my family will enjoy seeing more of me.

Title: Re: No Overtime for IT Wokers
Post by: ralph on December 09, 2011, 01:06:45 PM

Exactly my thought. 
Same with down PBX systems.

I would think people are going to be getting a big salary increase or they'll be hiring more people to fill in the after 40 hours time slot.

Ralph

Title: Re: No Overtime for IT Wokers
Post by: DevAudio on December 28, 2011, 10:20:35 AM

Many systems Engineers, Network Engineers, and Systems Administrators are already classed as "exempt" and aren't eligible for overtime.

Title: Re: No Overtime for IT Wokers
Post by: ralph on December 28, 2011, 12:02:01 PM

At one time in our office our data techs were 'salaried with OT'.   
I've no idea what the difference was between that and straight hourly with OT but they were happy.

Ralph

Title: Re: No Overtime for IT Wokers
Post by: Chakara on January 04, 2012, 08:29:10 PM

OT - what's that????