A police officer has sued the City of Chicago seeking pay for time spent dealing with work-related phone calls, voice-mails, e-mails, text messages, and work orders via BlackBerry® devices and similar "personal data assistants".

Did a federal appeals court implicitly criticize the June 2010 "Administrator Interpretation" on donning and doffing?

On-the-spot, unconditional signatures might complicate later challenges to the law, facts, or reasoning underlying the back-wages assessed.

If a recently proposed amendment becomes law, the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(15) exemption for certain "companionship" employees will essentially be eliminated.