Time you spend working is hours worked whether or not it was recorded, and it has to be paid. The timekeeping system determines what the employer knows about your hours rather than which hours count.
Under federal law, ordinary travel between home and work is generally not paid time, while travel that is part of the workday, including travel from one job site to another, generally is hours worked.
It depends on how restricted you are. If you must remain on the employer’s premises, or so close to them that you cannot use the time effectively for your own purposes, you are working and the time is paid.
Yes, where your employer requires the training or the meeting. Minnesota treats training time as hours worked, and the Department of Labor and Industry lists on-the-job training and required meetings among the time an employer must pay for.
Hours worked includes all the time your employer requires or permits you to work, which reaches well beyond the hours between clock-in and clock-out. Training time, call time, cleaning time, waiting time and any other time you must be on the premises or performing duties are all counted.
No. Overtime is measured one workweek at a time, and an employer cannot offset a long week against a short one to bring the average below the threshold.
