From Slashdot:
By John Howard (published Thursday, September 25, 2008) California’s high-tech industry has won a significant political and financial victory in the Capitol: An obscure bill was rewritten late in the Legislature’s hectic session at the industry’s behest to eliminate the hourly overtime-pay rule for computer professionals. Organized labor says the action, which targets some 250,000 private workers, is unprecedented in a California state budget and the industry believes it is the toughest such exemption in the nation. http://www.capitolweekly.net/?_adctlid=v|jq2q43wvsl855o|xfl3agauw8dn2r