#fairlaborstandardsact — Public Fediverse posts

People insisting it's normal to do work for a company without being paid for it is just wild to me. People literally arguing against their own interests out of pure ignorance.

In the US this is covered by the #FairLaborStandardsAct (#FLSA) which is extremely simple when defining what's considered on-the-job work. If it is mandatory, work-related, and for the benefit of the company, then it is on-the-job work and you should be paid for the time.

Coordinating with IT on what device they're going to ship you? That's on-the-job work.

Driving to a job site that is not your main office? That's on-the-job work.

Meeting with a client for lunch to discuss your latest deliverable? That's on-the-job work.

Know your rights, folks. #WageTheft is the top form of theft in the US by a wide margin

A Mexican grocery store in northeast Houston was forced to pay employees more than $460,000 in back wages and damages after a federal investigation found it failed to pay overtime rates to hourly workers who had logged more than 40 in a week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2024/02/02/476359/houstons-guanajuato-supermarket-failed-to-pay-overtime-wages-to-100-plus-employees-labor-department-finds/

#Business #Houston #Local #News #BackWages #FairLaborStandardsAct #GuanajuatoSupermarket #OvertimePay #USDepartmentOfLabor #YSLeeCompany

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