RE: Tech Writers - salaried or hourly?

Subject: RE: Tech Writers - salaried or hourly?
From: "Marianne Adams" <marjaone -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:44:09 -0400


I think perhaps what we're talking about here is not the difference between hourly and salaried employees, but between exempt and nonexempt.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) specifies that workers be paid overtime rates for more than 40 hours work per week. It also specifies certain kinds of employees - primary management and professional - who are exempt from these rules. Those "exempt" employees need not be paid overtime. In general, exempt employees are paid a straight salary regardless of the number of hours worked, and nonexempt employees are paid hourly, with provision for overtime paid at the rates specified by the FLSA.

There is a pretty decent discussion of how this works at http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html.

It appears to me that your management has determined that this junior position does not fit the legal requirements for exemption from the FLSA, either because the job tasks don't fit the standards for exemption, or perhaps because the salary paid is below the minimum for exemption. As several people on this list have already pointed out, depending on the company and the benefits granted to nonexempt employees, that's not necessarily a bad thing, particularly if the job routinely requires extra hours.

Marianne



_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.



^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Check out RoboDemo for tutorials! It makes creating full-motion software
demonstrations and other onscreen support materials easy and intuitive.
Need RoboHelp? Save $100 on RoboHelp Office in May with our mail-in rebate.
Go to http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l

Your monthly sponsorship message here reaches more than
5000 technical writers, providing 2,500,000+ monthly impressions.
Contact Eric (ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com) for details and availability.

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot- Visit http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.


Previous by Author: Re: The Indian Menace?!?
Next by Author: RE: real tech writers? RE: Out-of-Work Tech Writers and Switching Careers
Previous by Thread: RE: Tech Writers - Salaried or Hourly?
Next by Thread: real tech writers? RE: Out-of-Work Tech Writers and Switching Car eers


What this post helpful? Share it with friends and colleagues:


Sponsored Ads