jim
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Maybe that would matter to Epstein's count, but not
> to the one I've cited.
>
> 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
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