Vivendi games unit sued in overtime dispute

[kandrathe]

Well, first a little cultural perspective. California has some of the toughest labor and employment laws in the US, and Silicon Valley is the most lawsuit plagued portion of the planet. So when I hear that an employee in Silicon Valley is suing their employer, I'm wondering how that is news? The gripe is about overtime pay and whether "salaried" persons should get it. IMHO, for a salaried person there is no reason to collect time-sheets. There is a need to record the time spent on projects, but only for project management. This software engineer is probably making in excess of 150K, and works in a job environment any one of us would give up a body part for.

I'm more concerned about blue collar joe schmoe who was injured on the job and is having trouble collecting his disability because $400/hr corporate lawyers have the case tied up for years.

Excerpt from employment law guide on overtime pay;

Thus, if you are exempt, you will not be entitled to overtime pay – exempt, generally means that you are a salaried employee or that you are an executive, administrative, professional, or outside sales employees. If you make high level decisions or supervise other employees, you likely fall under this category. Exempt employees also include farm workers, recreational workers, news people, employees of motion picture theaters, and certain computer specialist, so long as they are paid at least $27.63 per hour.