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Quick Quiz Answer: "On Call" Time Under The FLSA

January 26, 2012 05:26
by John E. Thompson

It is not likely that Alan's time between calls would be found to be worktime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Hours Worked | Recordkeeping | Timekeeping

Tags: Quick Quiz, FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act, on-call time, on-call, call time, down time, hours worked, compensable work, worktime, working time, work time

Quick Quiz: "On Call" Time Under The FLSA

January 19, 2012 05:31
by John E. Thompson

Is an on-call employee's time between calls likely to be deemed to be "hours worked" under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act?

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Hours Worked | Recordkeeping | Timekeeping

Tags: FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act, on-call time, on-call, call time, down time, hours worked, compensable work, worktime, Quick Quiz, working time, work time

"Flexible Work" Trend Still Necessitates Wage-Hour Compliance

January 7, 2012 03:33
by Ted Boehm

It is still necessary to take wage-hour compliance into account even when one embraces a "flexible workplace" philosophy.

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Compliance | Government Enforcement | Recordkeeping | Timekeeping

Tags: workplace flexibility, Gen Y, Generation Y, non-traditional work, non-traditional schedules, non-traditional schedule, flexibility, 9-to-5, 9 to 5, nine-to-five, nine to five, work/life balance

Clock Now Ticking On "Companionship", Live-In Domestic Restrictions

December 31, 2011 02:52
by John E. Thompson

The deadline is set for submitting comments on proposed provisions that would drastically limit the FLSA's exemptions for "companionship" workers and live-in domestic employees.

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Exemptions And Exceptions | Proposed Regulations

"Service Writers" And Similar Workers: Good News/Bad News

December 27, 2011 09:54
by John E. Thompson

The recent federal appropriations law contains at least one positive development concerning the FLSA exemption status of automobile-dealership service writers and similar employees.

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Compliance | Exemptions And Exceptions | Government Enforcement | Legislation | Overtime | Overtime Compensation

Tags: service writer, service advisor, service manager, service salesman, salesman, partsman, mechanic, 13(b)(10)(A), 13(b)(10), overtime exemption, exemption, dealership, FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act, automobile dealership, Department of Labor Appropriations Act 2012, Section 113, 29 C.F.R. § 779.372(c)(4), 779.372(c)(4)

Regulation Proposed to Limit FLSA's "Companionship" Exemption

December 15, 2011 23:32
by Ted Boehm

Efforts to eviscerate the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(15) "companionship" exemption have now formally moved to the regulatory arena.

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Exemptions And Exceptions | Proposed Regulations

Tags: companionship, domestic, 13(a)(15), companionship services, domestic service, home care, direct care, direct care workers, home care workers, companionship exemption, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, proposed regulation

DOL Pushes "Initiative"-Focused FLSA Enforcement

December 12, 2011 07:04
by John E. Thompson

Recent U.S. Labor Department news releases show something important about its current approach to enforcing the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Compliance | Government Enforcement

Tags: compliance, initiatives, enforcement initiatives, enforcement inititative, FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act, back-wages, minimum wage, overtime, civil money penalties, U.S. Labor Department, U.S. Wage and Hour Division, Wage and Hour Division

Bill Would Broaden FLSA Computer Exemption

November 30, 2011 03:31
by John E. Thompson

The proposed "Computer Professional Update Act" would significantly expand the scope of the current FLSA statutory exemption for certain computer employees.

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Administrative Exemption | Computer Employees | Executive Exemption | Exemptions And Exceptions | Legislation | Professional Exemption

Tags: computer professionals, computer employees, computer professional, computer employee, computer exemption, 13(a)(17), exempt, exemption, FLSA, 541.400, Subpart E

Holiday "Volunteer" Services Might Be FLSA Employment

November 22, 2011 01:56
by John E. Thompson

An organization to which people donate holiday services should consider the possibility that these individuals might be FLSA "employees".

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Employee Status | Employer Status

Tags: volunteer, volunteers, volunteerism, FLSA, employee, employment, holiday volunteer, holiday volunteers, Fair Labor Standards Act

Job Descriptions Are Not "Exemption Descriptions"

November 17, 2011 02:56
by John E. Thompson

Among the famous last words in the FLSA Hall of Infamy are, "Let's write the job descriptions to make them exempt."

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"Outside Salesman" Exemption | Administrative Exemption | Executive Exemption | Exemptions And Exceptions | Professional Exemption

Tags: job descriptions and exemptions, exempt, exemption, exempt status, FLSA exempt status, FLSA exemptions, job descriptions, writing job descriptions, drafting job descriptions, write job descriptions, draft job descriptions, wage-hour exemptions, overtime exemptions

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