Overtime Law

Nobody may work harder, and nobody may have more job satisfaction, than a nurse. But with all of those hours put in, do nurses generally qualify for overtime pay, or are they exempted under the FLSA? The answer to that question may depend on what kind of nurse you are, what your duties are, what…

Are reporters entitled to overtime pay? Will they write about it more if they are? Even with the well- documented decline of print media, there are certainly enough reporters left on the job for this to be an ongoing issue. And reporters facing layoffs will certainly have any number of questions that could be directed to…

In order to know if the time you spend at work might be classified as overtime by the FLSA, you have to know how work time itself is defined. The FLSA language defining what constitutes work itself is vague enough, though, that each situation probably has to be figured out on a case-by-case basis. For…

Ever make a work- related call or send an email from your Smartphone when you weren’t actually “on the clock”? Most people seem to be doing that these days, especially in busy Atlanta. You may very well be entitled to overtime pay for those activities, under some circumstances, as a new term has just leaped…

Information technology workers are notoriously overworked. They put in long hours, field endless emergency calls in and out of regular hours, get no credit when things go well and take the blame when anything goes wrong. Moderns cities like Atlanta have more than their share of IT workers. But because of an often- misunderstood FLSA…

One side issue that often arises in talking about overtime is travel time. The FLSA has some guidelines on when an employee’s time spent travelling is compensable. When is it considered to be overtime, and when it is travelling from Atlanta to Marietta considered to be all in a days’ work? For the most part,…

In most overtime cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the courts interpret the exemptions to the law narrowly, in favor of the employees seeking to be paid overtime. However, in a recent overtime collective action case decided by the Eleventh Circuit (the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over the federal district courts of…