It seems every week another call center case pops up. These are extremely dangerous cases for employers and that is why I keep writing (or, harping) about them, as a
Continue Reading How Many Times Do We Have To Go Through This? Another Call Center Boot-Up FLSA Class Action
As you may know, I am a big student of working time cases and often blog about them. One of my favorite categories of such cases are the so-called “dog
Continue Reading Bow-Wow–Security Officers Want Pay For Canine Care: Yet Another “Dog” Of A Case!
I love working time cases. And we got a real winner lately. The Third Circuit has recently ruled that clothes-changing time for oil rig workers was compensable. In so doing
Continue Reading Third Circuit Clarifies The Meaning Of “Integral and Indispensable” Test In Preliminary/Postliminary Working Time Cases: Employers Beware!
I read an interesting blog post by Seyfarth Shaw on a working time case in a call center. I have often blogged about working time cases, preliminary/postliminary cases, and have
Continue Reading The De Minimis Doctrine May Not Be As Moribund As I Have Thought: Call Center Case Makes This (Important) PointMany employers believe that if an employee (or many employees) perform a tiny amount of work, or work-like activity, before their shifts, that brief off-the-clock, activity cannot be “working time”
Continue Reading These Pre-Shift Working Time Cases Keep Popping Up–Employers Beware!
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
Continue Reading FLSA Collective Action Seeks Payment For Time Spent Undergoing COVID Screen: I Don’t Think So!
There have been a host of federal cases recently focusing on whether time spent waiting in security lines is compensable. Some have gone for the plaintiffs and others for the
Continue Reading Another Security Line Check Case: The Extent Of The De Minimis Rule Explored
On prevailing wage projects, employees are paid for the different trade work they do by the rate for that trade. Sometimes, employees work in more than one classification (e.g. Carpenter
Continue Reading On Davis-Bacon/Prevailing Wage Projects, Be Aware of “Split Classification” Issues and Problems
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
Continue Reading Wave of Wage-Hour Lawsuits Coming? Beware of the Danger Zones