Waiting Time and On-Call Time

New and Updated

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  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: Washington

  Updated to reflect information on a Court of Appeals ruling regarding de minimis time.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  California Rest Break Exemption for Private Security Officers Takes Effect

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  California Rest Break Exemption for Private Security Officers Expires

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: Kentucky

  Updated to reflect amendments regarding rest breaks, effective March 27, 2020.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: New Jersey

  Updated to reflect amendments to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination regarding breastfeeding employees, effective January 8, 2018.

• Type:

  Interactive Flowcharts

  Determine If Waiting, On-Call or Break Time Count as Hours Worked Under the FLSA

  Use this flowchart to determine whether the time that a nonexempt employee spends waiting, on call, on a meal break or on a rest break counts as "hours worked" under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: North Dakota

  Enhanced with information about the day of rest law.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: Massachusetts

  Enhanced with information about the day of rest law.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: Connecticut

  Enhanced with information about the day of rest law.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Hours Worked: West Virginia

  Updated to reflect testing provisions in the West Virginia Safer Workplace Act, effective July 7, 2017.