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p; Wage-and-hour disputes often come down to one deceptively simple question: when does paid work actually begin? A recent Eleventh Circuit decision draws some clear – and employer-friendly – lines around travel time, tool time, and waiting time under the Fair Labor Sta
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ards Act. TL;DR: The Eleventh Circuit held that temporary laborers were not entitled to pay for time spent waiting at a labor hall, collecting generic tools, or traveling