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If I bring work
home, does my employer have to pay me for this
time?
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Any time that you are working for your employer,
such as while eating lunch, bringing work home,
etc., and your employer knows it, you are
entitled to be paid for that time. If those work
hours push you over 40 hours per week, then you
are also entitled to overtime pay at
time-and-a-half for those extra hours.
Many FLSA lawsuits have involved employers
failing to include time spent by employees
performing work activities outside of their
normal shifts. Some employees, for example, may
"come early" and start working before the
official start time of their shifts. Such time
counts as work time and must be included in FLSA
pay computations, provided only that the
employer knew or should have known that the
employee was beginning work early (and, of
course, to the extent that the employee spent
pre-shift time actually performing work
activities). Pre-shift "roll calls" are work
time. Time spent setting up equipment before the
official start time of a shift is work time.
Some employees may similarly "stay late" after
shifts performing work; this time must be
counted as work time, as well. Time spent by an
employee cleaning equipment after the close of a
shift is work time. Post-shift work time could
also include time spent by an employee
performing job-related activities "on the way
home," as for example, a secretary who drops off
the day's mail at the post office or delivers
some paperwork to a customer or supplier. Some
employees take work home. That time may well be
work time. Similarly, if an employee is
contacted at home by telephone for work-related
reasons, the time spent is work time (and, of
course, if an employee is "called back" to work,
the time counts as work time.
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