Question

Computing wages and Salaries

Along with many other companies, Sanchez Printers observes the Friday after Thanksgiving as a paid holiday. The company requires each employee to make up Friday’s lost hours in the following workweek by working extra hours without pay.

Is Sanchez Printers proceeding legally by requiring its employees to work extra hours without compensation to make up for the hours lost on the Friday holiday? Explain.

Should this requirement be in the employee handbook?

Is Sanchez Printer acting ethically?

Answer 1

Answer :

No. Sanchez Printers, like other employers, may be inadvertently violating the FLSA by giving employees a four-day Thanksgiving weekend and then expecting them to make up the lost time later. Although there is no problem when an employer grants Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday as holidays, either with or without pay, a violation arises if the employees are asked to work extra hours without proper compensation in some other workweek to make up for the time lost. Such an arrangement could violate payment of time and one-half for hours over 40 in any workweek.