DO YOU BLACKBERRY, RESPOND TO EMAILS, OR MAKE PHONE CALLS AFTER WORK? ARE YOU GETTING PAID FOR THIS TIME SPENT WORKING?
Many California employers have kept up with the technological advances and provided their employees with Blackberrys and other smart phones. If your employer has provided you with such a phone, he might be expecting you to be available and to respond to email or phone messages in the evenings and on weekends. Or maybe he wants you to coordinate work by email or by texting in the mornings before meeting at a job site or conference.
If you are an hourly employee and your employer expects you to be available after regularly scheduled work hours to perform work, or asks you to make phone calls, send emails, etc... regarding work, you might deserve overtime pay. Under both CA and federal law, your employer is obliged to pay you for the work you have done, regardless of whether the employer requested that the work be performed. Additionally, certain employees are subject to overtime pay.
If you are an employee in CA who believes that you have been working overtime but not receiving pay for the hours you spend working, call the skilled employment attorneys at Greenberg & Rudman LLP. Our skilled legal team can help you. Call the Law Offices of Greenberg & Rudman LLP at 1-800-252-9776 (1-800-ALAWPRO) NOW for a free consultation regarding your legal rights or visit us at our website at www.discriminationattorney.com for more information wage violations.
