RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit

["Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

> The threshold was set at $41 in 2000, with annual adjustments based
> on the CA consumer price index.  The number rose to a peak of $49.77 
> in 2007, but dropped to $36 this past January (I assume because of 
> the bottom falling out of CA housing prices).

Gene:

Actually, it was reset to $36 by Senate Bill 929, introduced last year by Senator Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto):

  http://republican.sen.ca.gov/news/14/PressRelease4809.asp

The California overtime-pay law also applies to physicians and surgeons; their threshold wasn't reset by Cogdill's bill, so it rose again this year.

-Andrew

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