3 posts and columns on overtime

60 Hour Workweek? Luxury! When I Was an Apple Engineer, I Had to Start My Shift a Half-Hour Before I Ended it …

in News on August 7, 2008 at 1:18 pm PT

Slapped with a class-action lawsuit alleging it illegally deprived some 32,000 employees of overtime pay, IBM conceived of a novel solution: It settled the suit for $65 million. And then it slashed the base pay of the employees who filed it by 15 percent.

MacBook Air: Lick It Up

in News on January 25, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Big Screw

in News on January 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm PT

IBM has come up with a novel response to a class-action lawsuit claiming it illegally deprived some 32,000 technical-support employees of overtime pay. Big Blue is settling the suit for $65 million, but it’s slashing the base pay of the employees who filed it by 15%.