{"id":4616,"date":"2020-05-07T14:10:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsberrylaw.staging.wpengine.com\/?page_id=4616"},"modified":"2020-05-13T19:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:49:15","slug":"computer-it-professionals-overtime-pay-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/houston-overtime-unpaid-wages-lawyer\/computer-it-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Computer &#038; IT Professionals Overtime Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer professionals and Information Technology (IT) workers perform crucial support roles for companies in today\u2019s technology-driven economy. Without computer and IT workers, who make sure that everything is up and running, day-to-day business operations would simply collapse. If you believe you may be owed overtime payments consult with the experienced <a href=\"\/houston-overtime-unpaid-wages-lawyer\/\">overtime attorneys<\/a> with our firm to discuss your case and the next steps you should take. A knowledgeable Houston computer &amp; IT professionals overtime lawyer could help you seek the compensation you need.<\/p>\n<h2>Thousands of Computer and IT Workers are Misclassified.<\/h2>\n<p>Many computer workers believe they are not due overtime because they\u2019ve heard about an exemption called the \u201ccomputer professional exemption.\u201d It certainly sounds like it applies to all computer workers. However, that title was a poor choice of words by the legislature. Despite the title of the exemption, many employees who work with computers as part of their job are still eligible for overtime pay. The exemption was primarily intended to apply to computer programmers (coders) and architects.<\/p>\n<p>That explains why thousands and thousands of computer workers have been misclassified and have recovered overtime pay through claims brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act. These are computer professionals who perform their company&#8217;s valuable technical support functions such as installing, maintaining, supporting, and repairing computer software and hardware.<\/p>\n<h2>Common Computer Job Titles Held Not Exempt<\/h2>\n<p>These workers who are owed overtime pay have held a variety of titles such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IT Specialist<\/li>\n<li>System Administrator<\/li>\n<li>Database Administrator<\/li>\n<li>Web Administrator<\/li>\n<li>Network Engineer<\/li>\n<li>Helpdesk Support<\/li>\n<li>System Analyst<\/li>\n<li>Network Operator<\/li>\n<li>Business System Consultants<\/li>\n<li>Any other similar position<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Job Duties and Long Hours<\/h2>\n<p>Do you spend the majority\u2014meaning more than 50%\u2014of your time doing things such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installing computer systems and software applications<\/li>\n<li>Troubleshooting networking and hardware problems<\/li>\n<li>Creating new user accounts and troubleshooting login issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If so, then you and many IT workers like you might be entitled to overtime pay, in addition to your salary, from your employer. The federal government enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act to protect the rights of workers like you. The FLSA says that you must be paid 1.5 times your hourly rate for each hour over 40 hours worked in a week. If you are paid a salary, we convert your salary into an hourly rate to figure out what you\u2019re owed.<\/p>\n<p>The amount owed to computer and IT workers in back pay sometimes amounts to tens of thousands of dollars. This is especially true if you often find yourself, like many IT workers, putting in long hours, wearing pagers at all hours of the day or night, and responding to calls during the off-hours and weekends.<\/p>\n<p>At Kennedy Law Firm LLP we have built up years of experience in working with federal overtime law and helping workers like you to get the compensation you have rightfully earned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer professionals and Information Technology (IT) workers perform crucial support roles for companies in today\u2019s technology-driven economy. Without computer and IT workers, who make sure that everything is up and running, day-to-day business operations would simply collapse. If you believe you may be owed overtime payments consult with the experienced overtime attorneys with our firm<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"learnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/houston-overtime-unpaid-wages-lawyer\/computer-it-professionals\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":4639,"menu_order":76,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4616\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennedyattorney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}