FW: euphemistic use of "exempt"

Thu Sep 18 20:15:07 UTC 2014

There apparently is something that Globe writer Christopher L. 
Gastper calls "the exempt/commissioner's list", which he then 
characterizes as "a paid suspension without really being a 
suspension, which would draw the ire of the NFL Players [sic] 
Association."  So the exemption may be an exemption from (the 
penalties and disadvantages of) a real paid suspension -- for all 
three parties: the player isn't punished more severely,  the Players' 
Association doesn't have the bother of filing an appeal from 
suspension, and the Commissioner doesn't have to justify a punishment 
(the club puts a player on the exempt/commissioner's list, not the 
Commissioner).

Joel

At 9/17/2014 10:57 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

>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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> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
> > Subject:      FW: euphemistic use of "exempt"
> >
> > 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > -----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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> > Of
> > Baker, John
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:05 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: euphemistic use of "exempt"
> >
> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> > -----------------------
> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Poster:       "Baker, John" <JBAKER at STRADLEY.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: euphemistic use of "exempt"
> >
> > 
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