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Defining And Delimiting The Exemptions For Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales And Computer Employees; Final Rule
White Papers These exemptions are often referred to as the "white collar" exemptions. This paper provides the text of final regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act implementing the exemption from minimum wage and overtime pay for executive...
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
Fair Labor Standards Act: White-Collar Exemptions Need Adjustments For Today's Work Place
White Papers The concerns of employers and employees about the operation of the white-collar exemptions in today's work place involve all aspects of the regulations - the salary-basis test, the salary-test levels, and the duties requirements.
[June 29, 2005, 3:00]
Effects Of Repealing Fannie Mae's And Freddie Mac's SEC Exemptions
White Papers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), established and granted special exemptions and status by federal statute. This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper analyzes the likely economic effects of a proposal to...
[July 7, 2005, 3:00]
Activists Wring Four DMCA Concessions
News The US Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but was criticised by free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions. Some DMCA critics had asked for far more sweeping...
[October 29, 2003, 9:30]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News In his budget speech on Wednesday, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the tax exemptions offered within the Home Computing Initiative would be withdrawn next month. As a result, the Govenment [sic] has decided to remove the current tax...
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
A New Threat From The Datacentre: You're Making Your Staff Deaf!
Blog Comment The UK is already getting exemptions from the EU employee protection laws. The key thing is just to pressure our goverment to remove these exemptions.where applicable) No probs, welcome to the club or maybe try and support mark thomas et al in move...
[June 27, 2008, 15:04]
UK Scientist Researches IT Hazards For EC
News Dr Paul Goodman of ERA Technology, which has been commissioned by the EC to assess the validity of 11 separate exemptions, said on Wednesday that the deadline for his work been brought forward to allow the committee to make an informed vote next...
[October 13, 2004, 16:20]
Public Get A Say On DMCA
News In October 2000, two exemptions were set: filtering researchers could study blacklisting techniques, and obsolete copy-protection schemes could be legally bypassed. Those exemptions expire in October 2003.
[November 20, 2002, 16:03]
EC Examines E-money Regulation
News There are some exemptions -- for example for "small issuers" who issue e-money below a certain threshold -- but these exemptions are very narrow. It goes on to suggest that businesses involved in activities that do indeed constitute the issue of e...
[May 28, 2004, 11:00]
AOL Not Liable For Unauthorised E-books
News When the DMCA was being drafted, ISPs such as AOL successfully lobbied for exemptions that would prevent them from having to spend all their time policing their networks. In recent years, copyright owners have tested those exemptions by filing...
[March 19, 2002, 10:40]
US Copyright Office Sides Against Lexmark In DMCA Case
News During the October 2000 round, two exemptions were set: Filtering researchers could study blacklisting techniques, and obsolete copy-protection schemes could be legally bypassed. Those exemptions were due to expire this month, but the Copyright...
[October 30, 2003, 8:40]
Internet Telephony 'is Not Telecommunications'
News Thursday's opinion highlights growing pressure on rules and definitions that have moulded the telephone industry for much of the past century, as well as exemptions to those rules carved out by Congress and the FCC for new services arising from...
[October 17, 2003, 16:10]
Free-software Gadfly Takes On Net Group
News Some patent defenders have sought to carve out exemptions in their licensing terms for free software, but corporations paying full price have objected to those exemptions. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- in large numbers.
[November 25, 2002, 14:52]
Perens Takes On Internet Standard Body
News Some patent defenders have sought to carve out exemptions in their licensing terms for free software, but corporations paying full price have objected to those exemptions. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- in large numbers.
[November 26, 2002, 10:28]
Application Of A Flat Tax Rate For Individual Income Tax
White Papers In general, Arizona state income tax is a tax on income derived from all sources less exemptions and deductions. Individual income tax rates are graduated such that rates increase as income is higher.
[June 17, 2005, 3:00]
"Owning The Customer" In Marketing Arrangements
White Papers The new Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 ("GLB") "pushed-out" broker-dealer exemptions for banks (the "GLB Broker-Dealer Bank Exemption"). The language of the GLB broker-dealer exemption for third-party brokerage arrangements suggests is intended to...
[September 29, 2008, 1:18]
Human Capital Management: FAA's Reform Effort Requires A More Strategic Approach
White Papers Yet, more than 7 years after the agency received broad exemptions from laws governing federal civilian personnel management, it is not clear whether and to what extent these flexibilities have helped FAA to do so.
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Protests Derail Software Patents Vote
Talkback My impression is that one of the motivating factors behind this clarification of the patent situation (which is a dubious description of the potential result of this directive, especially if various claims are correct with respect to exemptions...
[September 2, 2003, 12:23]
Federal Subsidies And The Housing GSEs
White Papers Their special legal status as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which includes tax and regulatory exemptions, enhances the perceived quality of the debt and mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) that they issue or guarantee and translates into...
[July 5, 2005, 3:00]
The Individual Alternative Minimum Tax
White Papers Under the AMT, a parallel tax system was established with a more limited set of tax preferences than those that apply under the regular income tax and with its own set of exemptions and tax-rate schedule.
[June 29, 2005, 3:00]
