GREENBELT, Md., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Yesterday, in a victory for Maryland workers, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that workers in Maryland have greater protections than under a 1940s-era federal law, and must be paid for all of their hours worked. Explaining the circumstances, the Court stated that the State's wage and hour law "means what it says," and that workers, who are represented by Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, are entitled to compensation from the time they are "required by the employer to be on the employer's premises, on duty or at a prescribed workplace."

In an expansive 59-page opinion, the Court meticulously reviewed two cases of laborers working for different subcontractors on the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. In those cases, "the workers accessed the construction site via buses, supplied by the general contractor for the project, that took them from the parking area to the construction site and back. The workers were not compensated for wait and travel time, either coming or going from the parking area, which in total averaged approximately two hours per day." Workers were told that this was the only way they could get onsite, and that they could be fired for reporting to work any other way. The question in both cases was whether the time spent assembling at the parking area as required by their employer, and being bussed to the construction site, constituted "work" compensable under Maryland's wage and hour law. The lower courts applied...

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