Workplace BlackBerry Use May Spur Lawsuits

An anonymous reader writes "From an article on cnbc.com: 'As employers hand out electronic devices to their employees at a greater pace, there are growing concerns that workers eligible for overtime pay, known as non-exempt employees, could begin suing their employers for overtime hours earned while tapping on their devices during after-work hours. As a result, lawyers are advising their corporate clients to update their policies and handbooks related to BlackBerry use and reconsider who gets a device.'"

Comments

Re:Turned it down

[ckaminski]

Why? They don't PAY me for 24/7 support, and it's not end-of-business threatening. If they want it done so bad, they can call my boss and have him call me to fix it, with the understanding that I get a comp day. Period.

I'm not going to let my blackberry wake me up for every little email thrown out.

Re:Turned it down

[NMerriam]

If a fsking fileserver is down you should be freaking fixing it, not waiting till hundreds or thousands of manhours have been wasted the next morning!

If the file server is that important, they should have 24/7 staff on-site to keep it running.

You can't complain about the prohibitive cost of having a professional IT staff available all hours and then turn around and say what a financial disaster it would be if they weren't there.