Re: Tech Writer Lawsuit

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

The top-level site is provided by the state as
guidelines to employers to determine what their
employees' status should be, so it's easy to see
how this ended up in court.

Writers will have to decide for themselves if they
think they'll be better off as hourly nonexempts
than as salaried exempts. If I had been told
when I interviewed for my first writing job back
in 1992 that I would be going from professional
to hourly employment, I would not have made
the jump from engineering to technical writing.
My personal opinion is that Hoenenmier and
her lawyers are willing to send the entire
profession of technical writing down the path
to becoming secretarial help in order to get
their payoffs.  But that's just my view on the
subject.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:11 AM
Subject: RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit


> That links to the page I cited, though. The page you cited is just a 
> summary
> and refers to the relevant sections of the Code itself, which is at
> http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&group=00001-01000&;
> file=500-558.
>
> Bonnie Granat
> http://www.GranatEdit.com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:24 PM
>> To: Bonnie Granat; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Re: Tech Writer Lawsuit
>>
>> From
>>
>> http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_OvertimeExemptions.htm
>>
>> The CA Dept of Labor website.  Which may in part explain why
>> the issue is going to court.
>>
>
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