FW: euphemistic use of "exempt"

[Dan Goncharoff]

As I understand it, Peterson now has no requirement to attend otherwise
mandated team activities as stipulated in the players agreement, but gets
no credit towards seniority and pension for the games he misses. IOW, he is
now exempt from many provisions of the players agreement as long as he
stays on the Exempt Commissioner's Permission List.

A quick check of the CBA indicates that the list is mentioned, but not
defined. For example:

Section 6. Rosters: The NFL shall supply the NFLP A with an opening day and
final
roster for each Club. Rosters shall consist of the following categories of
players: Active;
Inactive; Reserve Injured; Reserve Physically Unable to Perform; Exempt
Commissioner
Permission; Non Football Illness/Injury; Practice Squad.

https://www.nflplayers.com/about-us/cba-download/



DanG

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:41 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com>
wrote:

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> Poster:       David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
> Subject:      FW: euphemistic use of "exempt"
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baker, John [mailto:JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:36 AM
> To: David Barnhart
> Subject: RE: euphemistic use of "exempt"
>
> I have no idea why this happens sometimes for me.  It was a plaintext
> message, and I received it fine.  Can you forward my response to the list?
> Here is what I wrote:
>
>
>
> More generally, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, executive,
> administrative, professional and outside sales employees are exempted from
> the Act's minimum wage and overtime pay protection standards.  These
> personnel are usually referred to as "exempt employees," while personnel
> who
> are protected by those standards are "non-exempt employees."  So, for
> example, if my employer asks me, a professional employee, to work late
> (which happens approximately daily, except that I don't get asked, it just
> happens), I do not get paid time and a half, or for that matter anything,
> for the extra hours.  If I ask my secretary, a non-exempt employee, to work
> late with me, she will be paid time and a half.
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with the Vikings' announcement.  They
> seem to be using the term as Jon suggests.
>
>
> John Baker
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Barnhart [mailto:dbarnhart at highlands.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:34 AM
> To: Baker, John
> Subject: RE: euphemistic use of "exempt"
>
> Dear John,
>
> I don't know what happened here.  I'd like to know what you wrote.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> barnhart at highlands.com
>
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> Baker, John
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> Subject: Re: euphemistic use of "exempt"
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