Re: "Are technical writers the unsung heroes of document generation?"

[Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

If your regular pay exceeds $82,000 (I'm rounding up here) AND you and 
your employer are both willing to assert that the work you do does NOT 
consist of repetitive, rote tasks and DOES require creativity, 
discretion and/or independent judgement, you can still be exempt under 
the 2008 California law.

In practice, anytime you work through a temp agency, you're going to get 
classified as non-exempt no matter what you and your employer/s assert, 
because working as a temp pretty much defines you as interchangeable 
commodity labor in the eyes of the state. But as long as you are 
full-time direct and make more than the threshold pay level, the biggest 
determinant in whether employers want to classify you as exempt or 
non-exempt is really going to be whether they really understand the law 
and whether someone who had your job before you raised a stink about not 
getting OT pay. Because they obviously don't WANT to have to pay you OT.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 6/19/2015 5:59 PM, Janoff, Steven wrote: