Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:10:38 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:33:46 -0600, Robert <no@xxxxxx> wrote:

Contracting companies routinely pay for billable hours; straight time for overtime.

But I've done contract work where we had to post 40 hours of work
regardless of how much over we worked.

Filing a false time *** is illegal. Telling someone to file a false time*** is not
only illegal, it's a source of embarrassment to companies when they get caught.

As I said upthread, the company isn't legally required to pay employee programmers for
overtime. If you record 50 hours and they pay you for 40, it's legal.

Contractors are so named because they work under a written contract, not the
quasi-contract of labor law like ordinary employees. In that case, the terms of the
contract specify how you're paid for overtime. I've worked on 15 contracts in the last 10
years; none of them said overtime was free. When (not if) the client found out, it would
refuse to pay the contracting company's billings for overtime hours. The result would be
less income for the contracting company. In other words, the contracting company has no
incentive to do that, unless it has a fixed price contract with the client.

If the company really regarded you as a Salaried Professional, it would ask you to record
days rather than hours. I've worked on a number of payroll systems where salaried
employees did NOT submit a time ***. The input contained number of days by category:
worked, sick, vacation or holiday.
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