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Working Hours
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Employment Law Worldview
Now is the winter of hour discontent – the UK overtime burden
By Hayley Seldon, Squire Patton Boggs
Today is this year’s Work Your Proper Hours Day - from workSMART.org.uk, the first day for which the average person working unpaid overtime would get paid if they had worked…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Another Working Time Case: Whether On Land Or Sea, The Time Must Still Be Paid!
The issue of claims for alleged working time is on a disturbing trend upwards. There seems to be no end to the frequency and variety of these claims. Although the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Second Circuit Revisits Standards for “Working” Time vs. Off-the-Clock in Reviving Wage & Hour Class Action
When does the workday begin? When does it end? These were among the questions that the Second Circuit addressed and resolved in an important wage & hour decision last week. The…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Taking Exercise Classes and Watching Inspirational Videos Is Working Time? FLSA Collective Action Hits Lululemon Athletica
When employers are compelling employees or “suggesting” to employees that they engage in work-related activities before or after they go on and off the clock, trouble is brewing. In the…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Union Representation Activities: Are They “Working Time” Under The FLSA?
In a rather new twist on the working time class action trend, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is being sued in a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) collective action, where the…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Travel Time Class Action Highlights Necessity To Accurately Determine “Work Time.”
An equipment technician has filed a Fair Labor Standards Act collective/class action against Ingersoll-Rand Company. The allegation relates to alleged working time, i.e. travel time, that the company did not…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Is It Working Time Or Not? Employer Compulsion Is The Key Element
The electronic giant, Best Buy, has requested that a judge approve a $900,000 settlement in a New York State wage-hour class action in which the plaintiffs sought payment for time worked…
La Revue
Temps de travail des cadres au forfait jours : un contrôle nécessaire à mettre en place d’urgence !
Cass. soc., 23 septembre 2009, n° 08-41.377 FS-PBR Les cadres, y compris les cadres « autonomes » s'y mettent et les entreprises ont tout intérêt à rapidement mettre en place…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Court Strikes Claims In US Steel/Steelworkers FLSA Class Action
In a case entitled Clifton Sandifer et al. v. U.S. Steel Corp. a federal judge has cut out some claims from a work time class action suit, but has allowed…
La Revue
Augmentation du plafond du forfait-jour par seul accord avec le salarié !
Les employeurs se souviennent sans doute qu’une convention collective de branche ou un accord collectif d’entreprise était indispensable pour conclure avec le salarié un accord individuel de « rachat de…