OOW - Abandon Hope Posted: Sep 29th, 2015 - 5:16 pm
To answer the question that was asked 4 times today in a conference call very, very clearly and never answered about which law this supposedly covers, here’s the answer from the United States Department of Labor:
Waiting Time:
Whether waiting time is hours worked under the Act depends upon the particular circumstances. Generally, the facts may show that the employee was engaged to wait (which is work time) or the facts may show that the employee was waiting to be engaged (which is not work time). For example, a secretary who reads a book while waiting for dictation or a fireman who plays checkers while waiting for an alarm is working during such periods of inactivity. These employees have been "engaged to wait."
On-Call Time:
An employee who is required to remain on call on the employer's premises is working while "on call." An employee who is required to remain on call at home, or who is allowed to leave a message where he/she can be reached, is not working (in most cases) while on call. Additional constraints on the employee's freedom could require this time to be compensated.
They don’t want to pay waiting time, which would be considerably longer than the 15 minutes they’re paying now so instead they have in effect made all of us on-call employees
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