Some legal terms can be confusing and are misused or inappropriately interchanged. This is particularly true with legal terms associated with employment or labor laws. Two employment-related legal terms people regularly misuse are “at-will” and “right-to-work.” Many people use th...
As we have discussed in our “FLSA – Hours Worked“, minimum wage and overtime compliance cover a variety of situations, such as travel time, waiting time, on-call time, rest and meal periods, sleeping time, meeting and training time, and show-up time. In this segment of our series, we w...
In our “FLSA – Hours Worked” series we have reviewed situations, such as travel time, waiting time, on-call time, etc., that raise the question of whether the time should be considered hours worked for purposes of minimum wage and overtime compliance under the Fair Labor Standards Act...
As we discussed previously in our “FLSA – Hours Worked” series, there are circumstances when it may be unclear whether an employee’s time should be counted as hours worked for purposes of minimum wage and overtime requirements set forth in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). One...
Continuing our “Hours Worked” series, we will discuss the topic sleeping time and when it should be counted as hours worked for purposes of minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Some occupations require an employee to be on the employer’s premises and ava...
