Getting Paid for Blackberry Time After Work
The Iowa Employment Law Blog by Patrick Smith today reports on a potential new trend in employee overtime cases.
Many employees are required to have blackberries, iphones or other smart phones and find themselves tethered to work even at home or on vacation. For some, it feels like they are always at work. It turns out that employees might have the right to receive overtime pay for responding to the emails and other after work tasks required of them. See the Wall Street Journal Blog for more on these blackberry overtime cases.
If you are an employee who feels "shacked" to the office by a blackberry or other device, you might have the right to receive extra pay. The overtime laws can go back as far as six years in unpaid overtime, so some employees may be owed a lot of money. For people who are now out of work, the extra pay could not come at a better time.
