The health care industry seems to be ground zero for a particular kind of class action lawsuit. Many of these health care institutions have policies where a thirty-minute lunch period
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USDOL Issues Travel Time Opinion Letter For Construction Industry-Part II
I blogged the other day about a USDOL travel time Opinion Letter for the construction industry and foremen in that industry. The employer seeking the advice posed three scenarios and
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USDOL Issues Travel Time Opinion Letter For Construction Industry
I have stated many times that I am pleased that the USDOL has taken again to issuing Opinion Letters which guide employers in complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Commuting In Company Truck Does Not Make The Travel Time Compensable Under FLSA: Too Bad!
I just posted on a travel time case the other day but I have a special fondness for these kinds of cases and enjoy watching the numerous, creative ways that
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Travel Time Class Action Tries To Convert Home-To-Work Travel To Compensable Time
I have handled many travel time cases and can report, regretfully, that plaintiff-side lawyers are always seeking new and creative ways to make certain kinds of travel time compensable. A
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FLSA Working Through-Lunch Case Gets Dismissed: Another Automatic Lunch Deduction Case Goes Nowhere!
I have defended many cases in which the employee(s) claim they worked through lunch and are owed wages (or, usually, overtime). These cases are usually difficult to defend unless the
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More USDOL Guidance On Virus Working Time Issues: Tracking Off-the-Clock Time
I have written several times about employees working from home, e.g. telecommuting, and how employers must carefully keep track of their hours to avoid unauthorized overtime. There are situations, however,
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The FLSA and Temperature Checks: The Doctrine of “Integral and Indispensable” Comes to the Forefront
The other day I went to the eye doctor and, before I could go in, an employee checked my temperature. This phenomenon is going to become perhaps a constant fact
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Wave of Wage-Hour Lawsuits Coming? Beware of the Danger Zones
I have been writing about wage hour issues that are implicated or raised by the continuing COVID-19 situation. Well, here’s another one. I warn that as businesses start to open
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FLSA Telecommuting Issues Can Lead to Abuse: Employers Beware!
I am getting deluged with inquiries from clients, some very agitated, about what they should do, or can do, vis-à-vis their non-exempt work forces and how these folks can be
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