It depends - Check again Posted: Feb 25th, 2017 - 12:36 pm In Reply to: Unfortunately not against the law for telecommuters - Federal law
When I was a transcriptionist for a health care facility (employee) and worked on production at home, we had what they called non-production time. We never had to wait for work, but if a server went down or there was a technical issue on the network, we were paid for down time. I only remember once when we were totally caught up and people were given the choice of taking PTO or making up the time later. Technically, I was a telecommuter and I doubt that my employer was doing that out of the goodness of their heart, there probably is something in the labor law. If your employer expects you to be available while you are waiting for them to supply you with work, you are on the job if you are in your home or on-site. Because of what you said, I wonder if that is determined state by state, but I think that state law overrides federal law in these situations.
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