The class-action lawsuit that a former Apple network engineer filed last Monday has put tech workers' relationship with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) into the spotlight. Many IT pros are watching the case with interest since it boils down to a pocketbook issue: compensation for overtime.
At issue: are networking professionals-network engineers, network administrators and network support staff-covered by the FLSA? The plaintiffs contend that Apple misclassified them as exempt from the FLSA so that the company would not have to pay them for overtime. Apple will have to prove that these workers are in fact exempt by demonstrating that their jobs require independent judgment and that they're not simply carrying out repeatable tasks, says Jahan Sagafi, a partner with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, the law firm that represented IBM workers in their class action lawsuit against Big Blue in 2006. (The case was settled for $65 million that same year. It was the biggest settlement of such a suit to date.)
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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