Computer Programmer

sgarcia

Is a computer programmer considered exempt or non-exempt?

Pork

I am sorry no one responded to your posting! May I suggest you obtain a copy of Federal Regulations Part 541 from your friendly Wage & Hour folks (free may I add). Defining the Terms, Executive, Administrative, Professional, and Outside Sales gives you the necessary information to determine if your computer programmer is to be EXEMPT OR NON-EXEMPT! Computer Proframmers are normally truly professionals, work alone, and require sufficient qualifiying training and education to be considered as EXEMPT. However, computing has also grown so simple with soft ware programming designed so that some computer programmers of several years ago, now are no longer considered professionals. If the terminal operator is called/classified a professional and all they do is used saved programs to produce new programs or maybe they produce programs with say EXCEL or some other software program, then they would probably be considered improperly classified. Professional artist who use computers to design patterns for manufacturing were professional artist and EXEMPT; now days they simply pull up old patterns and create new patterns from old ones, these may not necessarily be considered profesionals and EXEMPT. GET THE DOCUMENT, READ IT, AND GO FROM THERE! Pork

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Also, here are a couple of helpful articles on HRhero.com:

Classifying your computer-related workers correctly
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/headlines/011802/computer.shtml[/url]

"Computer Professional in CA"
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/DCForumID17/536.html[/url]

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