If you require a non-exempt employee to be “on-call” or on “standby status”, that time may qualify as hours worked and need to be paid. Whether you must pay the employee generally will depend on the amount of control you exert over the employee; in other words, how much you restrict their free time while they are on-call or on standby.

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