[lbo-talk] US workforce

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sat Dec 3 10:53:14 PST 2005


How much were companies reclassifying workers as managers to get around overtime laws?

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:33:52AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> >Let's look at the numbers as they stood in the third quarter of 2005, the
> >most recent period for which data are available, compared with a fairly
> >tough base period -- 2000, the peak year of the previous boom, when the
> >unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. For example, if management jobs are
> >supposed to be in peril, you wouldn't know it from the figures. With a total
> >of 20.5 million folks currently employed as manager in the U.S., this
> >category of employment has added nearly a million jobs since 2000. Then, as
> >now, about one out of seven jobs in the U.S. is classified as managerial.
>
> This all depends on what you're calling managers. The "management of
> companies and enterprises" category in the establishment survey,
> which doesn't include the produce manager at Kroger's, numbers 1.7
> million, off 80,000 since the 2000 peak, and off 1,000 over the last
> year.
>

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