Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) & Firefighters -- The Online Wages, Hours and Overtime Pay Resource
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) & Firefighters -- The Online Wages, Hours and Overtime Pay Resource:
Check out this website for information concerning FLSA and Firefighters, Police Officers, and Paramedics. It is an interesting read. I have incorporated what I found interesting below. I have heard all this before, but I had never read it.
Check out this website for information concerning FLSA and Firefighters, Police Officers, and Paramedics. It is an interesting read. I have incorporated what I found interesting below. I have heard all this before, but I had never read it.
"Moonlighting" and "Dual Employment."
Employees may not "volunteer" to do similar work for the same employer without the time being counted as FLSA work time. Firefighters may not perform "additional" fire related activities for their employers without that time being included as hours worked for FLSA pay computation purposes. Also, employees who work "two jobs" for the same employer must aggregate their total hours worked for FLSA pay purposes. For example, a fire fighter who works 40 hours as a firefighter and an additional 20 hours as an animal control officer has a total of 60 FLSA hours worked. Employees are permitted to work "moonlighting" jobs -- for separate employers -- without the hours being aggregated. Employees may sometimes work for "joint employers," such as when they are assigned to a "task force." In such cases, each employer is equally liable to be sure FLSA wages are paid properly.
The way I read this is that any work you do for your employer has to be considered FLSA work time. There is no such thing as "volunteering" for your job. What does it mean to you?
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2 comments:
The way I read that is that each one of the people that have volunteered to teach in the high rise classes, the rit training, and all of the other classes we have done are due back wages. Unfortunately the ticks aren't included in that because of they are a different organization meaning that you can volunteer for rems because they aren't part of the city. But on the same note they serve the same area and are dispatched by the same people and perform the same (we hope) level of care (atleast when a paid guy is there)so would that conflict?
I believe that this is one of those regulations that can be inferred different ways all depending on who wants it to say what.
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