New OT law and the media

This is true, although there are certain rules that apply if the workers are working for more than one paper. Like, if a weekly newspaper reporter works for a paper with 3,500 circulation, he's not eligible for OT. But, if the reporter is working for two weekly papers that combine for 4,000 or more, then they are.

From what labor laws are newspapers exempt?

 

Welp, got the time card talk today from the boss. Everyone at the paper is now hourly and eligible for overtime as of Dec. 1.

Frankly I'm surprised the company didn't try to weasel out by reclassifying all the salaried workers.

 

Your knowledge, skill and command of mathematics is very sexy.

 

So are sewers when shit is about to flow into your front yard (Hi Ace!)

 

I just got the opposite talk, that all OT must be approved by the executive editor (whose previous attitude was "put the hours you work on your timecard" which got me OT nearly every pay period.) I forwarded the daily departmental checklist to him, and am still waiting to hear what can be done by someone else somewhere else.

Our off-site desk was offered OT to cover for the people who were laid off last week, but nobody was willing to take it.

 

what happened.

 

See Ace's quotes. It has to do with "sexy."

 

Real-world math: Some things that took 15 people 600 hours to do aren't worth it.

 

Ours did that and also came up with wonky math to make 5 hours of overtime more palatable, which involves screwing us over hard if we make the mistake of "Oh, yeah, they're going to know how much work I put in!". Screw them. I'm never working one minute over 40 ever again.

 

I'd like to hear more about this. If federal labor laws were actually enforced, this sounds like something that might run afoul of them.

 

Me too. The wonky math, what is it, who came up with it and who does it favor? Making 5 hours of overtime more palatable - is that more palatable to the employer or to the employee?

What does "screwing us over hard" mean?

 

Well, to quote myself from elsewhere here:

And I know of at least two stupid bastards who are determined to let this company know how many hours they really work, goddamit, who are going to be stunned that they're suddenly making minimum wage and told that they can't work more than 45 hours. And, oh, since your new wage was based on 10 hours of overtime, well, you just took a huge pay cut.