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On-Call Worker Wage Suits on the Rise

By Edward Bills

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An increasing number of on-call employees are filing lawsuits alleging that their employers failed to pay them for onerous restrictions on their time. According to several suits, companies are trying to enforce the unreasonable restriction as a cost cutting measure. Employer-side lawyers are now advising their clients to review on-call policies to avoid being swept up in wage-and-hour class actions.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on May 25, 2009 (boomark / email).

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