When is travel time compensable? The focus is on whether an employee is engaged in travel as part of the employee’s principal activity or for the benefit of the employer.
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Xerox Company Pays Employees Millions For A Few Minutes Each Day
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Affiliated Computers Services, Inc. (“ACS”), a company owned by Xerox, has agreed to settle a wage and hour dispute with call center employees for $4.5 million. The call center workers…
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Another Call Center Case Focuses On Off The Clock Working Time
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I have written many times about class actions for claimed working time and the great danger of these “subtle” kinds of violations that then explode on the employer. Call centers…
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Seventh Circuit Affirms That “Suffering or Permitting” Employees To Work Means The Employer Must Know Of The Work
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I am always counseling clients to have very good and strict time reporting systems so that employees cannot claim they performed work and want to be compensated for it. I…
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Blowin’ In The Wind: Another Off-the-Clock Working Time Class Action
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In recent years, there has been a veritable explosion of class actions in which the theory is that the employer has failed to pay for preliminary or postliminary “working time.” …
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Off-the-Clock Collective Action Settled by Chicago Transit Authority
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Just the other day, I posted about an off-the-clock class action that involved field technicians. In this off-the-clock FLSA collective action, bus drivers claimed that they were not compensated for…
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Another Technician Off-the-Clock Class Action: The Most Dangerous Occupation For Such Claims
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I have often discussed the issue of lawsuits (usually collective actions) for off-the-clock claims and preliminary and postliminary work claimed to be compensable. These are usually mundane activities and usually…
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Does Home-to-Work Commute Time Become Compensable Under The “Continuous Workday” Theory?
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In a May 9, 2011 posting in the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, Daniel Schwartz took a look at the recent decision of the Second Circuit in Kuebel v. Black & …
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Do Employers Need to Pay Workers For Time Spent Turning On and Off Their Computers?
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This past week, Asurion Inc. settled a class action brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act in which employees alleged that the company improperly failed to pay them for time…
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Wage Hour Issues For New Companies: A Puzzlement
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David LaGasse recently wrote a column in Employment Law 360 that highlighted some of the wage-hour issues and problems facing start-up companies. I agree with these assessments and can comment further…
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