IT professionals: those magicians who can turn somebody’s idea into a software product or speaks in 1’s-and-0’s-ese enough to be able to fix computer problems that tech laypeople find any number of ways to mess up.

Whether titled a Chief Technology Officer (CTO), programmer/ coder, IT technician, help desk support, computer science major intern, or something else, a lot of these folks we have represented have been project oriented, and focused on solving problems or building solutions as per stated requirements.

And completely taken advantage of in the process.

They wake up one day - maybe when the job ends in one way or another, or maybe just out of the blue - and realize that all the hard work they’ve put in to accomplish these missions hasn’t been compensated fairly in one way or another.

Does not compute.

We get that.

Some IT professionals can be exempt from some of the wage payment laws. But by no means are all IT professionals exempt from all of the wage laws. A lot of companies get it wrong - either because they don’t know better, or they just don’t care enough to figure it out. Sometimes it is pretty egregious - like the IT professionals we’ve seen who just simply aren’t paid one or more of their owed paychecks. Other times it’s more nuanced - like when a company pays them on a salary basis and nothing extra for overtime when really they should be paid overtime.

Major system failure.

Here are a couple of things to bear in mind:

The title that your employer assigns to your position does NOT end the debate of whether or not you are entitled to overtime pay. An in-depth scan of your actual responsibilities and duties will determine that.

Your employer is legally and ethically required to pay you appropriately and IN FULL for all the hours you put in. That’s the law. Anything else is blatant wage theft.

Don’t let yourself be defrauded out of those extra 1’s and 0’s on your paycheck. You may love working with computers, but not enough to do it for free. Stealing your hard-earned overtime is no different than robbing you of anything else you’ve worked hard to get. Only in this instance you don’t call the police. You call us.

The attorneys at AndersonDodson will help you force stop your employer’s unethical and unacceptable remuneration ‘policies’ and make them compensate you fairly for all the hard work that has, until now, enriched them more than it has you. DEL wage/theft/now.