Freelancers don't automatically get perks that some salaried jobs offer, like paid vacation or sick leave, life insurance, college tuition, or retirement plans.
The story of a billionaire owner of a social-media platform has little in common with the challenges that preoccupy the salaried executives of most public firms.
The official reason he wasn't given stock options was that he was an hourly technician, not a salaried engineer, which was the cutoff level for options.
We’re more than doubling the overtime salary threshold. And what that means is, most salaried workers who earn less than about $47.500 a year will qualify for overtime.
This was one of the difficulties of moving in good Middlemarch society: it was dangerous to insist on knowledge as a qualification for any salaried office.