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NO PAY FOR 30-60 MIN. to close the store (clean, sort the receipts & deposit money)

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Guest
I work as a sales person for a large (public company) retail chain in CA as a non-exempt employee. Few days a week I am working evening shift - from 11.30 till 8 (including 30 min. for lunch break). At 8 o'clock I lock the store, clean it, sort the receipts, count the money and take the money to deposit to a nearby bank. This takes me about 30-60 minutes for which I was never paid; is this OK?

Thanks!

 


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I AM ALWAYS LIABLE

Guest
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by California:
I work as a sales person for a large (public company) retail chain in CA as a non-exempt employee. Few days a week I am working evening shift - from 11.30 till 8 (including 30 min. for lunch break). At 8 o'clock I lock the store, clean it, sort the receipts, count the money and take the money to deposit to a nearby bank. This takes me about 30-60 minutes for which I was never paid; is this OK?

Thanks!

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My response:

Here ya go. You have a lot of reading to do.
Best of luck to you.

CALIFORNIA CODES
LABOR CODE
SECTION 500-558

500. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Workday" and "day" mean any consecutive 24-hour period commencing at the same time each calendar day.
(b) "Workweek" and "week" mean any seven consecutive days, starting with the same calendar day each week. "Workweek" is a fixed and regularly recurring period of 168 hours, seven consecutive 24-hour periods.
(c) "Alternative workweek schedule" means any regularly scheduled workweek requiring an employee to work more than eight hours in a 24-hour period.

510. (a) Eight hours of labor constitutes a day's work. Any work
in excess of eight hours in one workday and any work in excess of 40
hours in any one workweek and the first eight hours worked on the
seventh day of work in any one workweek shall be compensated at the
rate of no less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay
for an employee. Any work in excess of 12 hours in one day shall be
compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay
for an employee. In addition, any work in excess of eight hours on
any seventh day of a workweek shall be compensated at the rate of no
less than twice the regular rate of pay of an employee. Nothing in
this section requires an employer to combine more than one rate of
overtime compensation in order to calculate the amount to be paid to
an employee for any hour of overtime work. The requirements of this
section do not apply to the payment of overtime compensation to an
employee working pursuant to any of the following:
(1) An alternative workweek schedule adopted pursuant to Section
511.
(2) An alternative workweek schedule adopted pursuant to a
collective bargaining agreement pursuant to Section 514.
(3) An alternative workweek schedule to which this chapter is
inapplicable pursuant to Section 554.
(b) Time spent commuting to and from the first place at which an
employee's presence is required by the employer shall not be
considered to be a part of a day's work, when the employee commutes
in a vehicle that is owned, leased, or subsidized by the employer and
is used for the purpose of ridesharing, as defined in Section 522 of
the Vehicle Code.
(c) This section does not affect, change, or limit an employer's
liability under the workers' compensation law.

511. (a) Upon the proposal of an employer, the employees of an
employer may adopt a regularly scheduled alternative workweek that
authorizes work by the affected employees for no longer than 10 hours
per day within a 40-hour workweek without the payment to the
affected employees of an overtime rate of compensation pursuant to
this section. A proposal to adopt an alternative workweek schedule
shall be deemed adopted only if it receives approval in a secret
ballot election by at least two-thirds of affected employees in a
work unit. The regularly scheduled alternative workweek proposed by
an employer for adoption by employees may be a single work schedule
that would become the standard schedule for workers in the work unit,
or a menu of work schedule options, from which each employee in the
unit would be entitled to choose.
(b) An affected employee working longer than eight hours but not
more than 12 hours in a day pursuant to an alternative workweek
schedule adopted pursuant to this section shall be paid an overtime
rate of compensation of no less than one and one-half times the
regular rate of pay of the employee for any work in excess of the
regularly scheduled hours established by the alternative workweek
agreement and for any work in excess of 40 hours per week. An
overtime rate of compensation of no less than double the regular rate
of pay of the employee shall be paid for any work in excess of 12
hours per day and for any work in excess of eight hours on those days
worked beyond the regularly scheduled workdays established by the
alternative workweek agreement. Nothing in this section requires an
employer to combine more than one rate of overtime compensation in
order to calculate the amount to be paid to an employee for any hour
of overtime work.
(c) An employer shall not reduce an employee's regular rate of
hourly pay as a result of the adoption, repeal or nullification of an
alternative workweek schedule.
(d) An employer shall make a reasonable effort to find a work
schedule not to exceed eight hours in a workday, in order to
accommodate any affected employee who was eligible to vote in an
election authorized by this section and who is unable to work the
alternative schedule hours established as the result of that
election. An employer shall be permitted to provide a work schedule
not to exceed eight hours in a workday to accommodate any employee
who was hired after the date of the election and who is unable to
work the alternative schedule established as the result of that
election. An employer shall explore any available reasonable
alternative means of accommodating the religious belief or observance
of an affected employee that conflicts with an adopted alternative
workweek schedule, in the manner provided by subdivision (j) of
Section 12940 of the Government Code.
(e) The results of any election conducted pursuant to this section
shall be reported by an employer to the Division of Labor Statistics
and Research within 30 days after the results are final.
(f) Any type of alternative workweek schedule that is authorized
by this code and that was in effect on January 1, 2000, may be
repealed by the affected employees pursuant to this section. Any
alternative workweek schedule that was adopted pursuant to Wage Order
Numbers 1, 4, 5, 7, or 9 of the Industrial Welfare Commission is
null and void, except for an alternative workweek providing for a
regular schedule of no more than 10 hours' work in a workday that was
adopted by a two-thirds vote of affected employees in a secret
ballot election pursuant to wage orders of the Industrial Welfare
Commission in effect prior to 1998. This subdivision does not apply
to exemptions authorized pursuant to Section 515.
(g) Notwithstanding subdivision (f), an alternative workweek
schedule in the health care industry adopted by a two-thirds vote of
affected employees in a secret ballot election pursuant to Wage
Orders 4 and 5 in effect prior to 1998 that provided for workdays
exceeding 10 hours but not exceeding 12 hours in a day without the
payment of overtime compensation shall be valid until July 1, 2000.
An employer in the health care industry shall make a reasonable
effort to accommodate any employee in the health care industry who is
unable to work the alternative schedule established as the result of
a valid election held in accordance with provisions of Wage Orders 4
or 5 that were in effect prior to 1998.
(h) Notwithstanding subdivision (f), if an employee is voluntarily
working an alternative workweek schedule providing for a regular
work schedule of not more than 10 hours work in a workday as of July
1, 1999, an employee may continue to work that alternative workweek
schedule without the entitlement of the payment of daily overtim
 
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lawguy

Guest
okay, hopefully you ignored all that nonsense posted by IAAL (boy is he getting annoying!)...

yes, you're entitled to pay for this time. these before-and-after work activities must be paid for when they're part of your job duties (and take more than just a couple of minutes). both state and federal law require you to be paid for these tasks.

you can file a claim or complaint with the state Labor Commissioner (info: 415-557-7878 or on the web at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/dlse.html ) or call the federal Department of Labor.

the federal regulations require pay for all of an employee's "principal activities" as well as those closely related to it. 29 CFR 790.8(c) says:


" (c) Among the activities included as an integral part of a principal
activity are those closely related activities which are indispensable to
its performance. If an employee in a chemical plant, for
example, cannot perform his principal activities without putting on
certain clothes, changing clothes on the employer's
premises at the beginning and end of the workday would be an integral
part of the employee's principal activity. On the other
hand, if changing clothes is merely a convenience to the employee and
not directly related to his principal activities, it would be considered
as a ``preliminary'' or ``postliminary'' activity rather than a
principal part of the activity."

since you're required to do the accounting and banking, you're working for your employer and entitled to be paid.

good luck.
 

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