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Implementing a Four-Day Workweek: Legal Challenges and Complexities

Before you implement a four-day workweek, make sure you understand the legal and practical implications.

Thinking about a four-day workweek for your workers? Already have one and need a reality check? This topic focuses on the legal challenges and complexities of a four-day workweek including, can the employer unilaterally implement a four-day schedule in both union and nonunion settings; does a four-day 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 four-day 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 four-day workweek. You can implement a four-day workweek, but better to know the issues and solve them before they come up.

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Agenda

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
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This course was last revised on April 23, 2020.

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  • CA MCLE 1.5
     
  • Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
     

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This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Michael A. Pavlick

Michael A. Pavlick

K&L Gates LLP

  • Partner in the Pittsburgh office of K&L Gates LLP
  • Practice emphasizes all aspects of labor and employment law, with a focus on wage and hour law and traditional labor law
  • Has represented a variety of clients in cutting-edge cases and cases of first impression
  • Conducts regular seminars and workshops on numerous aspects of labor and employment compliance
  • Written several publications related to the areas of labor and employment
  • Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year in 2012 for labor and employment litigation in Pittsburgh, and a Best Lawyer pick every year since
  • Former judicial clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
  • J.D. degree, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, Case Western Reserve University; B.A. degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Drew University
  • Can be contacted at [email protected]
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