Are hourly-paid Trane workers entitled to receive pay for their pre-shift and post shift activities?
The lawsuit alleges that Trane only pays its hourly-paid employees for “shift time” in accordance with Trane’s agreement with the union or according to a pre-determined shift time. The FLSA (the federal overtime law) requires that employees be paid for their actual hours of work, not just their shift time or some other pre-determined time period. The lawsuit alleges: (1) that Trane employees perform work activities before and after their assigned shift time; (2) that Trane employees should be paid for the pre-shift and post-shift work; (3) the pre-shift and post-shift activities are “integral and indispensable” to the employees’ assigned shift activities or are considered principal activities; and (4) because these activities are actual work activities, Trane’s “shift time” pay policy violates the federal overtime law. Trane contends that it complied fully with the law.
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