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Gig & app work · answered from 7 primary sources
Federal hours-worked rules treat some waiting as work and some as not, and the dividing line is how much freedom the worker really has during the wait. Those rules reach employees, which is a separate question for app work.
Whether waiting time counts depends on the circumstances, not on what the wait is called. Under the federal hours-worked rules, some waiting is work time and some is not, and the dividing line is how much freedom the worker actually has during the wait. Those rules reach people who count as employees under federal law, and app companies usually treat drivers as independent contractors, which is a separate question again.
Salaried
29 CFR § 541.2 says a job title alone is insufficient. The executive exemption asks for a salary condition and three duties conditions, and a badge is not one of them.
Commission
Being paid on commission is one condition of a narrow federal exemption, and the Department of Labor says all three must be met at once. Whether they are, for any particular job, is not this page’s question.
Gig & app work
Federal minimum wage law reaches employees, and a regulation says the cost of tools of the trade an employer requires cannot cut into a workweek’s minimum wage. Whether a car and its gas count that way is the Department of Labor’s question, not this page’s.
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