What are the new overtime regulations that affect newspapers and newspaper employees?
Journalists may be exempt from overtime regulations if their work is primarily creative, but not if their principal role is to collect public facts or rewrite press releases, the US Department of Labor stated today. The announcement was made as a part of the Labor Department’s long-anticipated rewrite of Fair Labor Standards Act rules, which had not been updated for nearly 50 years. The rule classifies journalists as professionals if their work requires “invention, imagination, originality and talent, as opposed to work which depends primarily on intelligence, diligence and accuracy.” If their job is to “collect, organize and record information that is routine or already public,” they are subject to overtime rules. If they primarily rewrite press releases and cover public meetings, their jobs are not exempt from FLSA. If their primary job is to write columns, editorials or commentary, however, they probably are exempt–provided their compensation is greater than $455 per week. Michigan
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