There's not actually any law mandating 40 hour work-weeks. Labor laws mandate that any employee that works over 40 hours and is paid an hourly rate be paid at overtime (1.5) rates. That's for hourly employees.
Labor laws also define those employees that are exempt from overtime. Those job classifications (including programmer, architect, attorney, etc) do not get paid overtime, however there is also a minimum salary that must be paid to them. Right now (unless things have changed recently) that minimum salary is right around $538/wk. Granted, that's just shy of $28k/yr but it's also a very acceptable entry level wage for some industries. Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know many people in our industry that work just 40 hours a day. > Nor in architecture, law, accounting etc. etc. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
