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The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division (federal agency)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 29 U.S.C. 204, 211
- Issued
- 2020-08-24 Aug. 24, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-08-24
- End
- Continuing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 24, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandateWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- employers of teleworking non-exempt employees
- WHD field staff
- Functions reached
- OF telework administration and timekeeping
- OP payroll
- HR
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
FIELD ASSISTANCE BULLETIN No. 2020-5... Employers' obligation to exercise reasonable diligence in tracking teleworking employees' hours of work (the bulletin restates the FLSA duty to pay for all hours the employer knows or has reason to believe were worked, applied to telework 'arrangements' that 'have increased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic')
Enforcement
FLSA back-wage and liquidated-damage liability (29 U.S.C. 216)
Notes
The federal government's own statement that telework arrangements increased because of the pandemic and its orders; reaches every employer that moved non-exempt staff to remote work.
Retrieval noteOne-page render of the live bulletin page. Cite it as context and cite the underlying order, statute or emergency rule it describes as the instrument. (Bulletins whose operative text imposes a mandatory duty on licensees under the regulator's own authority are excluded from this downgrade and listed separately for review.)).