A Law Firm Helping California’s IT And Computer Tech Workers Collect The Wages They Are Owed
Many people in computer technology jobs like information technology (IT) and information services (IS) find themselves working unreasonably long hours and being on call at any time of day or night with no additional compensation beyond their base salary. If all of these hours were carefully tracked and calculated, many tech workers would find that they are making less than minimum wage.
This is unfair at best, and it could be illegal at worst. If you are a salaried tech worker, you might have been classified as exempt, meaning that you are ineligible for overtime pay. But the classification rules governing computer tech workers are far from simple, and your employer may either be mistaken or intentionally violating the law.
If you know or suspect that you are being undercompensated in your current job, contact our skilled employee rights attorneys at Cohelan Khoury & Singer. Our San Diego-based firm advocates for workers throughout California. Our dedicated team of attorneys has an in-depth knowledge of labor laws as well as 200 years of combined legal experience. If you are being underpaid, they will fight for the pay you deserve and the back pay you are owed.
Many Tech Job Titles Are Eligible For Overtime Pay
Whether a current or former employee, one worker can represent the interests of the entire staff to change the way employees are paid and recover four years of back pay for everyone. This is true for IT or IS staff, and other technical staff such as quality assurance (QA) engineers, test engineers and software engineers (such as SE I-III positions).
Our office has secured class action recoveries on behalf of:
- Systems administrators and senior systems administrators
- Systems analysts
- Systems specialists
- Systems management
- Systems developers
- UNIX infrastructure administrators
- Software engineers
- Site content developers
- Integrators
- Network engineers
- Network security specialists
- Technical support specialists
- Desktop support technicians
- Helpdesk positions
- Support technicians
- Technology team
- Telecom/telephony managers and engineers
- Communications specialists and supervisors
- Communications consultants
- Communications managers
- IT engineers
If you spend most of your time grinding out code and are not allowed to perform more intellectually challenging tasks, such as those associated with software architecture, analysis and design, you may be misclassified and entitled to back overtime pay. To put it more bluntly, if your company treats you as “code monkeys,” they must pay overtime.
Other Workers And Certain Duties May Also Be Eligible For Overtime
Even if you don’t see your job title listed above, part or all of your work duties could be considered nonexempt. For instance, work like installing/upgrading software and hardware and configuration of desktop computers is often eligible for overtime pay, according to opinions issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.
This is just one example of why you should consult an experienced employment law attorney with questions about whether you are being compensated fairly. The rules and regulations are dense and confusing for most people, even highly intelligent IT workers. Our attorneys can clearly explain applicable laws and regulations and aggressively advocate to reclassify your work, seek back pay or both.
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To learn more about how Cohelan Khoury & Singer can help you, contact our San Diego office to request a free initial consultation. Just call 888-652-2201 or contact us online.