Telecommuting Laws

Employers are legally required to pay employees for all hours worked, regardless of where the work is performed. Moreover, an employee’s right to collect overtime has nothing to do with whether work is performed outside the office. Whether the employee works more than 40 hours in a single workweek, or 12 hours in single day, telecommuting overtime pay laws state that the employee must be paid overtime, even though that work may have been performed from the employee’s home office, or on the employee’s laptop or PDA while the employee is sipping coffee at Starbucks.

If your employer is violating the telecommuting pay laws, you (and other employees) may be entitled to a significant award of back pay. Please contact us for a free and confidential case evaluation or simply to learn more about the legality of your employer’s overtime policies.