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Computer Professionals pdate Act Targets Overtime For American Nerds
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A lot of technical legislation in the hallowed halls of Congress deal with statutes and laws that affect the American consumer. But a bill introduced in late October to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions set its sights on the American technology worker instead.
The bill, called the Computer Professionals Update Act (ironically labeled the CPU Act), would make many tech sector workers exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act. That means the standard "you get a time and a half for overtime hours" rule would not apply to jobs that pretty much include IT and development from top to bottom.
The bill doesn't outright ban these workers from making overtime for hours past 40. It just means that companies that employ them are exempted from the overtime payment requirement. Given the current cost cutting measures that are in effect across industries in the United States, do you have trust that a company will still pay overtime if they're not legally obliged to?
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