US supreme court to rule overtime litigation

A number of lawsuits especially in Support, Education and consulting have been filed and won in front of US judges.
This is why recently many salaried employees, who didn’t have to record their time, where moved to hourly waged employees.
Time sheets have to be entered for all hours to generate the pay check.

California Court Decision is particulary interesting as it considers potential economic and equity distortions between californian residents and non residents.
This reminds EU countries considerations regarding their respective strengths or weakness in competitiveness regarding the labor "costs".

To be continued, in better employee investments recognition considering real labor & travel hours...

US Court Ruling Oracle on Extra Hours

An appeal court of justice ruled against Oracle regarding extra hours compensations. Those extra hours need to be payed considering the working state and not their home states, and compensating with a ratio of 1.5 every hours above the 8 hours daily limit.
This sounds quite interesting as out-of-hours compensations are among the most difficult things to have compensated. Situation in France is quite a painfull as extra hours are hardly payed.

Know more : Press Article
This judgment is following an other one from Siebel times