For the first time we report the effect on the rat of long-term (two years) inhalation of nicotine. The rats breathed in a chamber with nicotine at a concentration giving twice the plasma concentration found in heavy smokers. Nicotine was given for 20 h a day, five days a week during a two-year period.
California law requires that in order to be classified as exempt, an employee must earn a monthly salary which is twice the state minimum for a full time employee (40 hours per week). Currently the minimum salary for a full time, exempt employee is $33,280 per year. This will increase on July 1, 2014 to a minimum exempt salary of $37,440 per year. By 2016, employees will need to earn at least $41,600 per year to meet the minimum salary test for exempt status. State minimum wage law will also impact the pay of commissioned inside sales employees.
only salaried workers making below $ 455 per week equivalent to $ 23660 per year qualify for the same automatic protections salaried workers making $ 455 a week or more only have the right to earn overtime pay if their duties are determined to be nonexempt dutiesthis means that employees who make as little as $ 23660 per year may have no limit on their weekly work hours nor earn any pay for working beyond the standard 40 hour workweekith 12 percent of the salaried workforce earning between $ 50000 and $ 59999 raising the threshold gradually from $ 23660 to $ 60000 would bring an additional 51 percent of salaried workers under guaranteed ot coverage for a total share covered of 63 percent roughly equivalent to the share covered in 1975