Michael Perelman wrote:
>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.
>>
>
>--
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>Chico, CA 95929
>
>Tel. 530-898-5321
>E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
>___________________________________
>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk