Alan is a Help Desk Associate for The Big Corporation. He is
subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum-wage,
overtime, and timekeeping requirements.
Alan normally works from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m., Tuesday through
Saturday. Once each calendar month, Alan is on-call between 5 p.m.
and 11 p.m. each day for a seven-day period.
He has to call-in within 30 minutes after receiving an e-mail on
his cellphone. While he is on-call, he cannot drink alcoholic
beverages, and he cannot leave the metropolitan area in which he
lives. Typically, Alan receives two or three messages in a
seven-day on-call period and spends about an hour dealing with each
problem that prompted the e-mails he received. He accurately
records all of the time he spends handling those problems, and his
employer pays him properly under the FLSA for this worktime.
