January 10, 2024
Colorado employers need to carefully monitor operations to comply with the state's worker protection laws, as they navigate a recent rule change that may excuse them from paying for employees' time under rare circumstances, attorneys said.
October 24, 2022
A Tenth Circuit ruling that a call center had to pay employees for brief amounts of time spent working before clocking in shined a light on the complicated factors for determining if paying for those minutes is required, attorneys told Law360 at the decision's first anniversary.
December 10, 2021
The full Tenth Circuit won't review a panel decision that deemed compensable the small amount of time call center workers for a student loan company spent booting up their computers before work.
November 22, 2021
A group of call center workers urged the Tenth Circuit to keep in place a panel decision finding the time they spent booting up their computers before work was compensable, saying the panel applied the law and didn't create any conflict.
November 09, 2021
A student loan company urged the Tenth Circuit to reevaluate a panel decision that found even a small amount of time call center workers spent starting their computers was compensable, saying the ruling is unprecedented and nullifies the de minimis defense.
October 12, 2021
Even a small amount of time call center workers spent starting their computers is compensable, the Tenth Circuit ruled, finding that a student loan company isn't free from its legal obligation to pay them for the pre-shift work they performed.