Compensable work chart
What time must employees be paid for? Use the chart below for a quick reference; for additional explanation, refer to ¶34,270
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Time spent during working hours
Compensable:
Coffee and snack breaks
Fire drills
Grievance adjustment during time employee is required to be on premises
Meal periods if employees are not relieved of duties, if not free to leave posts or if too short to be useful (less than 1/2 hour)
Meal periods of 24-hour on-call employees
Medical attention on plant premises or if employer directs outside treatment
Meetings to discuss daily operations problems
Rest periods of 20 minutes or less
Retail sales product meetings sponsored by employer
Show-up time if employees are required to remain on premises before being sent home
Sleeping time if tour of duty is less than 24 hours
Stand-by time-remaining at post during lunch period or temporary shut down
Suggestion systems
Walking to the production area after donning required work gear
Travel:
from job site to job site
from work site to outlying job
to customers
from preliminary instructional meeting to work site
by homeworker to deliver or obtain work
by truck driver standing guard while loading
for work after reporting at a required time
while on duty
to take off protective work gear at the end of the day
Noncompensable:
Absence for illness, holiday or vacation
Meal periods of 1/2 hour or longer if relieved of all duties and free to leave post (but can be confined to plant premises)
Medical attention by employee choice of outside doctor
Shutdown for regular maintenance
Sleeping time up to eight hours if tour of duty is 24 hours or longer, if agreement to exclude sleep time exists, facilities for sleeping are furnished, at least five hours of sleep are possible during scheduled period, and interruptions to perform duties are counted as hours worked
Union meetings concerning solely internal union affairs
Voting time (unless required by state law)
Waiting after relieved of duty for a specified period of time that allows employee to engage in personal activity
Time spent before, after, or between regular work hours
Compensable:
Arranging or putting merchandise away
Bank employees waiting for audit to finish
Changing clothes, showering or washing if required by the nature of the work (such as job with chemicals requires bathing for worker health)
Changing clothes, showering or washing if required by the nature of the work (such as job with chemicals requires bathing for worker health)
Clearing cash register or totaling receipts
Discussing work problems at shift change
Distributing work to work benches
Equipment maintenance before or after shift
Getting steam up in plant
Homework under contract with employer
Make-ready work, preparatory work necessary for principal activity
On-call time if employee must stay on or near premises so as to have liberty restricted or not use time as pleases
Photography and fingerprinting for identification purposes
Physical exam required for continued service
Suggestions developed pursuant to assignment
Travel time to customer on after-hour emergency
Noncompensable:
Changing clothes, washing or showering for employees' convenience
Homework of which the employer has no knowledge
Meal periods while on out-of-town business
Medical attention by company doctor even if injury was at work
Obtaining equipment from lockers where lockers are not recommended or required
On-call time when only telephone number to be reached or other similar contact device is required so that employee can come and go as pleases
Opening plant and turning on lights and heat
Preemployment tests
Retail sales meeting sponsored by manufacturer if attendance voluntary
Reporting early to promptly relieve prior shift
Time between whistle and start of work
Trade school attendance
Training programs sponsored by employer if outside regular work hours, attendance is voluntary, employee does no productive work while attending and program is not directly related to employee's present job (as distinguished from teaching another job or additional skill)
Travel time:
from home to work site or vice versa (even if employer provides transportation)
from plant entrance to work site
from time clock to work site
to and from dressing room
from outlying job to home
Unauthorized overtime if prohibited and without employer's knowledge
Voluntary attendance at government- sponsored safety meetings
Voluntary attendance at industry meeting to keep abreast of technological change
Waiting:
<p>What time must employees be paid for? Use the chart below for a quick reference; for additional explanation, refer to ¶34,270.</p>
Compensable work chart
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