http://www.employmentblawg.com/2009/overtime-pay-flsa-time-theft-part-i-introduction-white-collar-exemptions/ Workplace News & Views, Edited by St. Louis Labor & Employment Lawyer George Lenard Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:49:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.employmentblawg.com/2009/overtime-pay-flsa-time-theft-part-i-introduction-white-collar-exemptions/comment-page-1/#comment-51349 Sonia Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:51:10 +0000 http://www.employmentblawg.com/?p=3170#comment-51349 I cannot agree more that employers are "stealing time" from employees. There are reports and even lawsuits against employers (some large employers) who regularly practice miscalculating time worked by employees in order to short change the employee. There are some other employers who by setting a workload that requires maybe 10 or 15 hours beyond the 40 hours, force employees to either come to work early and or stay late or week on weekends. This is a form of theft - specifically time theft. I have heard more than one supervisor at my place of work telling an employee to prepare reports from home and then subsequently saying that because they were working at home (on the employees supposed time-off), the employee is not only not entitled to compensation but told something like,"You were at home anyways, so what are you complaining about,?" Employees are not slaves... an employer should not be able keep the employee from having a life outside of work..Not every minute of every day belongs to your employer, regardless of what the employer would like to believe or what the employer's lawyer can do to twist the intention of the law. I cannot agree more that employers are “stealing time” from employees. There are reports and even lawsuits against employers (some large employers) who regularly practice miscalculating time worked by employees in order to short change the employee. There are some other employers who by setting a workload that requires maybe 10 or 15 hours beyond the 40 hours, force employees to either come to work early and or stay late or week on weekends. This is a form of theft – specifically time theft. I have heard more than one supervisor at my place of work telling an employee to prepare reports from home and then subsequently saying that because they were working at home (on the employees supposed time-off), the employee is not only not entitled to compensation but told something like,”You were at home anyways, so what are you complaining about,?” Employees are not slaves… an employer should not be able keep the employee from having a life outside of work..Not every minute of every day belongs to your employer, regardless of what the employer would like to believe or what the employer’s lawyer can do to twist the intention of the law.

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