One of the biggest threats facing employers is employees performing pre-shift/post-shift work without being paid and then suing, as a class, for that compensation. This trend is especially prevalent in
Continue Reading Will Employers Ever Learn? Boot-Up Cases in Customer Service Call Centers Are A Real Problem!
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!
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?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
I have defended many claims and lawsuits involving working time, especially travel time. Employees are continually seeking innovative ways to convert their otherwise non-compensable home-to-work travel into compensable work hours.
Continue Reading Working Time/Travel Time Case Thrown Out: No Integral Connection to Primary Duty