
Employers should review pre- and post-shift activities that may be compensable


In an article on a California Supreme Court ruling that Starbucks and other employers must pay workers for routine off-the-clock activities, even if the amount of time is minimal, SHRM quoted Bryan Lazarski:
“Employers should conduct an analysis of what workers are actually doing at the start and end of their shifts, said Bryan Lazarski, an attorney with Lazarski Law in Los Angeles. He said employers should look for patterns. Is the work capturable? Perhaps employees have to start their computers each morning before logging in. If that activity regularly takes up to five minutes, employers may want to add five minutes to workers’ timesheets each day.”
Read the full article at SHRM.org