United States: Can Your Home Care Agency Afford To Employ "Sleep-Ins"?

Who is a Sleep-In Worker?
Under the Department of Labor’s Final Rule on Domestic Service, a “Sleep-In” worker is one who is required to be on duty for 24 hours or more. This worker differs from a “Live-In Domestic Services Employee” (“Live-In”) who (1) provides services in a private home, and (2) resides on the employer’s premises on a “permanent basis” (works and sleeps at the employer’s premises and has no home of his or […]

By | December 18th, 2014 ||

United States: The NYC Fair Wages Act: Tips For Businesses Leasing Or Seeking To Lease Space In New York City

On September 30, 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order (the “Executive Order”) that increases the living wage hourly rate under New York City’s Fair Wages for New Yorker’s Act. The wage increase covers workers employed at economic benefit projects that receive more than $1 million dollars in subsidies from the City and has expanded the law to cover additional employers. The law is effective immediately, however, it is […]

By | December 17th, 2014 ||

United States: Supreme Court Finds That Post-Shift Employee Security Screenings Noncompensable Activity Under The Fair Labor Standards Act

Last week, in Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, the United States Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous opinion holding that post-shift employee security screenings were noncompensable activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act because those screenings were neither the principal activity the employees were hired to perform nor integral or indispensable to the principal activity they were hired to perform.
Background
Integrity Staffing Solutions provides warehouse staffing to Amazon.com throughout the United States.  Jesse Busk […]

By | December 17th, 2014 ||