This blog article was authored by Partner Liz Arce in 2013 and continues to be one of our most popular articles. This post was reviewed in May 2024 and is up-to-date.
Many public employers utilize 9/80 work schedules for non-exempt employees. A 9/80 work schedule is essentially a two-workweek schedule of eight 9-hour days,
This post was authored by Lisa S. Charbonneau.
Many employers struggle with properly paying non-exempt employees who attend courses, conferences, seminars, meetings, and other trainings. In the absence of labor agreement provisions or other agency rules or policies governing this issue, public agency employers must follow the rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act
A few weeks ago, we provided some guidelines on how to deal with employees whose jobs require them to travel away from their office during the regular work day and how to determine whether their travel time is or is not compensable. That post dealt with situations where employees leave from and return
We get questions . . .
Recently a client called with this dilemma. One of its employees, an hourly non-exempt employee, is required to travel during the working day to locations away from the main office. Sometimes, the employee goes directly to an offsite location from home at the beginning of the day. On other