Contract Trivia: Working Overtime

Congratulations to New York member Christina Masso-Gonzalez, today’s winner of our 2023 trivia contest and a $50 prize. Christina’s entry was selected from several correct responses to our question from Monday: incentive payments must be paid within three months of being earned as defined in the respective incentive plan (see Article XXIV - Miscellaneous, Section F).

We hope everyone saw Wednesday’s update announcing that a grievance over automatic cash out of comp time has finally been resolved. Comp time is available to employees who are considered exempt from overtime when they are assigned work on a scheduled day off. This rule does not apply to all IAPE-represented employees. In fact, slightly more than half of all bargaining unit employees are considered overtime-eligible. And that brings us to this week’s contract question:

Which U.S. federal statute does the IAPE contract recognize for purposes of determining overtime eligibility?

Think you know? Email your response to union@iape1096.org. Not sure? Scroll through our contract posted on the IAPE website to find the relevant section. Members in good standing* will have until Thursday at midnight  to find the answer within the current collective agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones, and email that answer back to us. This Friday, one winner will be selected at random from all the correct responses, and that winning member will receive a $50 prize from IAPE.

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*The IAPE contract trivia question is a weekly contest for members of the IAPE/DJ bargaining unit in the United States and Canada, working under the terms of the collective agreement between Dow Jones & Company Inc. and the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees (IAPE) TNG/CWA Local 1096, AFL-CIO,CLC, in effect from July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023. IAPE officers, IAPE directors, IAPE staff, fee-paying non-members and non-members in right-to-work states (or new employees not yet paying dues to IAPE) are not eligible for prizes. Contest period lasts through 11:59 PM Eastern Time each Thursday. On Friday, one winner will be selected from the previous week’s correct answers by a random drawing. Winners are limited to one prize every thirty days.