Comments on: 2009 Employment-related Bills http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/2009-employment-related-bills/ The First Blog Dedicated To California Employment Law. Original reporting. Cradle-to-grave law tracking. Since 2004. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Betsy Lichtenberg http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/2009-employment-related-bills/#comment-1423 Betsy Lichtenberg Fri, 15 May 2009 23:53:55 +0000 http://stormsemploymentlaw.com/?p=655#comment-1423 Hi Eric, I am a technical writer at a large software company in Silicon Valley. My colleagues and I have recently been reclassified as non-exempt. The reclassification is based on AB 10: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_10_bill_20080930_chaptered.html The key section that affects technical writers is this: ============== The employee is a writer engaged in writing material, including box labels, product descriptions, documentation, promotional material, setup and installation instructions, and other similar written information, either for print or for onscreen media or who writes or provides content material intended to be read by customers, subscribers, or visitors to computer-related media such as the World Wide Web or CD-ROMs. =========== My question, should you choose to entertain it, is this: What is the story behind this exception for writers? Who wanted this exception and why? Hi Eric,
I am a technical writer at a large software company in Silicon Valley. My colleagues and I have recently been reclassified as non-exempt. The reclassification is based on AB 10:
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_10_bill_20080930_chaptered.html

The key section that affects technical writers is this:
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The employee is a writer engaged in writing material,
including box labels, product descriptions, documentation,
promotional material, setup and installation instructions, and other similar written information, either for print or for onscreen media or who writes or provides content material intended to be read by customers, subscribers, or visitors to computer-related media such as the World Wide Web or CD-ROMs.
===========
My question, should you choose to entertain it, is this: What is the story behind this exception for writers? Who wanted this exception and why?

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