In Maddy v General Electric Company, filed in federal court in the District of New Jersey, the plaintiffs brought a collective action pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)
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Supreme Court Ruling on Pre/Post Shift Activities: New Wine in an Old Bottle
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I have lectured and presented extensively on what does and does not constitute working time, in the context of preliminary and postliminary activities. The key in such determinations is whether…
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When Is It Time For A Wage Hour Audit? Answer—Now!
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Better safe than sorry is the old adage. Nowhere is this maxim more applicable than for an employer’s compensation practices, especially on issues of classification, working time, and record keeping…
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Travel Time Issues Under the FLSA: An Overview
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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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