Description
Before you implement a fourday workweek, make sure you understand the legal and practical implications.Thinking about a fourday workweek for your workers? Already have one and need a reality check? This topic focuses on the legal challenges and complexities of a fourday workweek including, can the employer unilaterally implement a fourday schedule in both union and nonunion settings does a fourday schedule create wage and hour issues, like affecting salary basis for exempt employees, requiring increased overtime commitments, limiting the use of child labor, and requiring additional paid breaks what is the effect of predicting scheduling laws does a fourday schedule create employment discrimination issues and what are the OSHA and safety concerns. The information will enable you to spot issues and avoid unintended legal consequences specific to the fourday workweek. You can implement a fourday workweek, but better to know the issues and solve them before they come up.
Date: 2020-07-28 Start Time: End Time:
Learning Objectives
What Is a Four-Day Workweek?
• Pros
• Cons
• Experiences
• Voluntary or Mandatory
Legal Issues
• Employer’s Ability to Change From Five-Day to Four-Day Schedule
• Nonunion Employers
• Union Employers
• Salary Basis Issues Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Does Changing Schedules Risk Minimum Wage and Overtime Exemptions?
• Temporary Changes to Schedules
• Pay Issues
• Maximum Hours Laws
• Increased Overtime Liability
• Issues Arising Under State Law
• Issues Arising Under Collective Bargaining Agreement or Other Contracts
• Lunch and Break Pay
• Child Labor Limitations
• Bargaining With Unions
• Is Changing the Schedule a Mandatory Subject of Bargaining, or Can Employer Make Changes Unilaterally?
• Scheduling Ordinances
• Fair Workweek/Predictive Scheduling Laws
• Employment Discrimination
• Disparate Impact Analysis
• Disparate Treatment
• OSHA and Other Safety Concerns
• General Duties Clause
• DOL Fatigue Laws
• Legal Creep
Practical Issues
• Paydays on Fridays
• Handbook Changes
• Benefit Accruals
• Workers’ Compensation Costs
CPE ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Michael A. Pavlick-K&L Gates LLP
