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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

On the Road Again – When Travel Time is Compensable Work Time

Summer is over, kids are back in school, and parents (your hourly employees) are available again for more travel work. They may travel to meetings, job sites, and other locations regularly, occasionally, or once in a blue...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

FLSA Class Action Settlement Illustrates Strictness Of Regulations On Training Time

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The FLSA regulations on training time are very specific and, often, hard for an employer to comply with. There are four conditions precedent for such time to be non-compensable and they must all be satisfied or else the time...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Second Circuit Addresses Off-The-Clock Work

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In Perry et al. v. City of New York, the Second Circuit upheld a large jury verdict in favor of a collective of workers regarding off-the-clock work. In doing so, the Court reaffirmed the principle that employers will...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

Oregon Supreme Court Rules That Oregon Law Follows Federal Definition of “Work Time.”

In a recent decision titled Buero v. Amazon.com Services, Inc.­­, 370 Or. 502 (2022),  the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that Oregon’s wage and hour law uses the same definition of “work time” as the federal Fair Labor Standards...more

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1 More Hour of Sleep but 4 More Wage and Hour Problems as Daylight Saving Time Ends

​​​​​​​On Sunday, November 6, 2022, at 2:00 a.m., daylight saving time will end. This World War I–era practice of turning back the clock one hour in the fall became a federal law in the United States when President Lyndon...more

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U.S. Department of Labor Issues New Guidance on Remote Work

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a transformation of the workplace and an explosion of remote work, including for employees previously not covered under employers’ telecommuting policies. Despite the reopening of most state...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Ninth Circuit Affirms Use of FLSA "Rounding" Rule for Recording Time Worked

For more than a half-century, Department of Labor regulations issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act have allowed employers to adopt an administrative rounding policy to prevent situations where the employer would be...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Employers Cannot Rely on Timekeeping Policies as a Defense to FLSA Claims

An employee's violation of timekeeping policies is not a defense to a Fair Labor Standards Act claim, if the employer knows or has reason to know that an employee underreported his hours, according to a recent decision by the...more

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