Re: Tech Writers as Hourly Employees?!

Subject: Re: Tech Writers as Hourly Employees?!
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 08:14:07 -0700 (PDT)


Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> After all, as a manager it is part of my job to keep our
> company from getting into trouble with the law.

Gene, not sure about your state law, but I was inspired by your
comments to finally look up the recent new DOL (US Federal) regulations
concerning tech writers:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/fs17e_computer.htm

It seems under Federal law, TWs are specifically exempted from
time-and-a half pay. UNLESS they make less than $27.63/hr, which is not
an unusual offer these days.

So if you are offered exactly $27.63/hour, hold out for $27.62 :-)

I'm not affected because I'm a contractor, but I wonder if any TW
employees have been affected by this regulation?

Mike O.



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