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Friday, August 20, 2004
Neither Learned nor Creative -- I recently came across FLSA: What Was Changed in the "White Collar" Exemptions?, a piece on US Department of Labor rules about overtime for categories of white collar work. These three categories caught my attention...
3. Learned Professional -- Primarily performs work requiring advanced knowledge in a field of science or learning, defined as work predominantly intellectual in character and requiring consistent exercise of discretion and judgment; Acquired the advanced knowledge through a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction
4. Creative Professional -- Primarily performs work requiring invention, imagination, originality or talent in a recognized field of artistic or creative endeavor
5. Computer Employee -- Is compensated either on a salary basis at not less than $455 per week ($23,660 per year) OR $27.63 per hour if on an hourly basis; Is a computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer or other similarly skilled worker in the computer field; Primarily applies systems analysis techniques and procedures
They caught my attention because there are also currently several threads of what sometimes seems like never-ending discussion about the nature of software work in places like the agileprojectmanagement discussion group. Is it craft? Engineering? Artistic?
Apparently the Feds have figured out that a "Computer Employee" fits in neither the learned category nor the creative.
Perhaps because it's both? (How's that for last minute flame retardent?)
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