Bill would exempt IT professionals from overtime
A recently introduced bill would redefine time and attendance legislation by limiting information technology workers from claiming time-and-a-half for overtime employee attendance.
The Computer Professionals Update Act would affect hourly IT workers who make more than $27.63 per hour or are salaried. Analysts, programmers, designers, developers and other similarly skilled workers would all be affected by the proposed change.
The bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate last week by North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan. It is cosponsored by Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet and Republicans Johnny Isakson and Mike Enzi, of Georgia and Wyoming, respectively, and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
"Eliminating (the overtime) portion of their paycheck isn’t going to do them any favors, particularly in this economy," private industry IT system administrator Matt Simmons told Government Technology.
Currently, IT workers are only exempt from overtime if their primary duties involve applying systems analysis techniques and designing, implementing or testing computer programs.
The Computer Professionals Update Act would affect hourly IT workers who make more than $27.63 per hour or are salaried. Analysts, programmers, designers, developers and other similarly skilled workers would all be affected by the proposed change.
The bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate last week by North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan. It is cosponsored by Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet and Republicans Johnny Isakson and Mike Enzi, of Georgia and Wyoming, respectively, and was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
"Eliminating (the overtime) portion of their paycheck isn’t going to do them any favors, particularly in this economy," private industry IT system administrator Matt Simmons told Government Technology.
Currently, IT workers are only exempt from overtime if their primary duties involve applying systems analysis techniques and designing, implementing or testing computer programs.
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