Topic
Working Hours
108 published works
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Employers Must Be Aware of “Sneaky” Working Time FLSA Collective Action Cases
I continue to blog about working time cases because these are the kind of lawsuits that can sneak up on an employer who does not realize that a certain pre-shift…
La Revue
La durée légale maximale de travail de 48 heures par semaine calendaire est conforme au droit européen
Cass. Soc. 12 décembre 2018, n°17-17.680 Par un arrêt du 12 décembre 2018, publié au bulletin, la Cour de cassation s’est prononcée sur la conformité de la durée maximale de…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
FLSA Collective Action Travel Time Case Illustrates Nuances Of “Working Time” Conundrum
Working time claims/lawsuits take many forms and often arise out of seemingly unlikely circumstances. In a recent case, the Third Circuit ruled that temporary workers brought in to take over…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Salaried workers, overtime and hours of work
By Lisa Stam
In our connected age, work often creeps beyond the set hours of the workday. See my last post about legislating the right to disconnect for more on this. We often…
Law and the Workplace
DOL Issues Four New FLSA Opinion Letters
By Allan Bloom
Summer’s not over yet! On August 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor issued four new letters in response to requests for opinions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In…
La Revue
Nouveau danger sur les conventions de forfait en jours
Cass. soc. 5 octobre 2017, n° 16-23.106 à n° 16-23.211 et Cass. soc. 17 janvier 2018, n° 16-15.124 Annulations en cascade des dispositions conventionnelles, exigences multiples posées par la Cour de cassation !…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Eddie Bauer Security Check Waiting Time Case Gets Certification: What Is “Working Time”?
What is working time? There are many variations on this theme, some far grayer than others. When does waiting time become working time? Is the employee engaged to be waiting…
Employment Law Worldview
The form labor agreement that’s making headlines in Japan
Last week, Japanese newspapers reported that a national medical research center in the suburbs of Osaka had entered into a so-called "36 agreement" with its doctors and nurses in 2012,…
China Law Blog
China Employee Working Hour Laws
By Grace Yang
[caption id="attachment_30572" align="alignright" width="243"] Want to know more about China's employment laws? Buy the book.[/caption] One of the most important things you should know about China employment law is that…
California Employment Law Update
California Supreme Court Resolves Day-Of-Rest Questions
By Tony Oncidi
Mendoza v. Nordstrom, Inc., 2 Cal. 5th 1074 (2017) In response to three questions asked of it by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the California…