The issue of working time, especially the issue of preliminary and postliminary activities and what activities are compensable, haunts me as a practitioner and is confusing for employers. Many of
Continue Reading Another Call Center Case Finding Boot Up Time Is Compensable: What Else Is New?I have written about call center cases, which involve allegedly unpaid working time, many times. Well, they continue to pop up. In a recent case, a class of workers claim
Continue Reading Yet Another FLSA Call Center Working Time Class Action—Here We Go Again!
Lately, there has been a lot of “action” from the USDOL on the thorny and misunderstood issue of travel time. The agency has just issued another Opinion Letter that addresses
Continue Reading The Impact Of Working Remotely And FLSA Compensable Travel Time: Another USDOL Opinion Letter Nugget
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
Continue Reading The FLSA and Temperature Checks: The Doctrine of “Integral and Indispensable” Comes to the Forefront