(HT to Adjunct Law Prof Blog) There is a new article on the possibilities of having to pay overtime for employee use of Blackberry’s and other technology devices outside of regular working hours.

J M Schlossberg and K B Malerba, “Tech-Tock: Work in a connected world” New York Law Journal: Labor & Employment 21 May 2007.

Employers increasingly expect their employees to answer emails and respond to calls wherever they are at — shopping, traveling, commuting, at home in the evening, and so on. This results in working beyond the regular 9-5, and employers may be overlooking the possibility of liability for paying for these extra hours (from a US perspective). Employment law is usually not included in most discussions of cyberlaw in academic courses, but maybe this is another area that could be added to the subject — perhaps in a “catch-all” session at the end of the year.

Blog post at Adjunct Law Profs here.

Paper link via Adjunct Law Profs here.

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