Yes, it's very confusing. Apparently in September 2008, the exemption for Computer Professionals in the California labor law was specifically modified to exclude technical writers and various other categories of employees. (Text of law here (http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_10_bill_20080930_chaptered.html).) If I read the law correctly, then this should be triggering a mass shift of all tech writers in Silicon Valley to non-exempt status, but except for Oracle, which has treated all its tech writers as non-exempt employees for a few years now, and Sun, which is currently the target of a class action lawsuit brought by a tech writer for unpaid overtime, I haven't heard much about this. Maybe California is very slow to enforce changes in the law?
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rosecarmine
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Date: 2009-05-14 08:34 pm (UTC)