Another working time case where the allegation is workers being compelled to work through lunch. Seems that the health care industry is prone to this as I have blogged about
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Automatic Lunch Deduction Policy (Again) At The Center of FLSA Working Time Class Action: Stop The Madness!
“I am angry and I don’t know what to do with my anger!” This is a line from the movie, The Big Chill, one of my favorites. It also…
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In December, I blogged about off-the-clock work in my post Unreported, Off-the-Clock Work. Off-the-clock work includes meal break time, and issues arise when employees work during these breaks, or…
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What Is Working Time? Listen To My Webcast Airing on January 17, 2013
I often post on and discuss working time issues, e.g. travel time, on-call time, automatic lunch deduction cases, training time and, of late, after-hours employee email/blackberry usage and whether it is…
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FLSA Collective Action Dismissed for Failure of Lead Plaintiff To File Opt-in: Yes!
When I begin defending a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action, one of the first strategies I look for is to find some way to kick the named plaintiff out…
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The United States Department of Labor Targets Wage and Hour Abuses In The Residential Care Industry
On December 1, 2011, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced that it will be conducting an “enforcement initiative” focused on the residential care industry in North Carolina. The…
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The Danger of Automatic Lunch Deductions Surfaces (Again)
I recently gave a presentation at a national wage-hour conference in Miami on the perils of automatic deductions for lunch and the possibility that such a procedure could lead to…
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Health Care Industry: DOL Intensified Focus Mandates More Awareness
In a recent posting in the Wage Hour Defense Blog, Kara Maciel brought attention to the new, intensified focus by the federal Department of Labor in auditing and inspecting health…
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Are Smart Time Clocks, In Fact, “Smart?”— Class Action Involving Automatic Lunch Deductions
There are employers whose “smart” time clocks automatically make a thirty minute deduction every day for lunch, supposedly and assumedly taken. I have railed against this practice, advising that the…
US DOL Finds 4,000 Nurses at SSM Health Care Owed One Million Dollars Over Missed Lunches
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, there is no law requiring employees receive a lunch period or break times. However, when the employer gives time for lunch, the employees must…
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