The issue of payment (or not) for undergoing security checks has been a hot item of late, especially since the US Supreme Court issued its momentous decision in Integrity Staffing
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Paid Time Off For Getting The Vaccine: States Are Moving Towards That.
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I have been asked many times by clients if they need to give employees paid time off in order to get the vaccine. I tell them (in New Jersey) that…
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Homework Can be Compensable Work Hours—Can You Believe It?
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I have often blogged (and am concerned about) working time issues, especially when they comprise the basis for a class action. These are “soft,” subtle activities that may rise to…
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When Does Travel Become Compensable Work Hours?
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I blog a lot about working time cases because these are the issues can sneak up on an employer, even the most well intentioned and good faith employer. Travel time…
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Donning and Duffing Cases Keep Happening: The Danger of Off-The-Clock Activities
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Working time cases come in all sizes and shapes. Many of these off-the-clock cases are so-called donning-and-duffing cases involving clothes changing for work and whether it is compensable. The U.S.
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A Waiting Time/Bag Inspection Case Where The De Minimis Defense Actually Worked!
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I have blogged several times recently on the rash of “check bag” cases that have percolated through the courts. Another example. A class of workers employed by Converse Inc. have…
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Eddie Bauer Security Check Waiting Time Case Gets Certification: What Is “Working Time”?
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What is working time? There are many variations on this theme, some far grayer than others. When does waiting time become working time? Is the employee engaged to be waiting…
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Ninth Circuit Finds Beauty School Students Were Not Employees
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There have been a great many intern cases recently, cases testing whether interns crossed the line into being statutory employees and therefore covered by the FLSA. I have blogged about …
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Third Circuit Rest Break Case Has Different Slant
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It is well-established that short rest breaks, so-called coffee breaks, are compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In a variation on this age-old theme, in a unique set of…
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Beauty School Students Are “Dropouts” From the FLSA According to Seventh Circuit
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In the movie “Grease,” there is a song entitled “Beauty School Dropout,” sung by Frankie Avalon. Well, in a legal version of that number, the Seventh Circuit has affirmed that…
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