Food Lion's focus on employee excellence was on display this week when the grocery chain recognized some of its exemplary managers with awards.
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‘No-Call’ for ‘On-Call’: Illegal Misclassification of ‘On-Call’ Shifts
A new form of wage theft has recently been identified, where employers misclassify employees’ schedules in order to shift the business expenses associated with scheduling to the employee. Illegal misclassification schemes have been around for decades. A common example is an employer misclassifying an employee’s job title, so that the employee is a salaried employee, in order to avoid paying the employee overtime. Here, the employers are misclassifying the employee’s schedules, instead of the employee’s job title, to avoid paying reporting time premiums.
