So the company I work for just rolled out a policy that will force my employees to work off the clock and not be paid for it. I live in Ohio and thought “oh Christ that can’t be right. Better call the depart of labor to make sure my people are being paid.” Contacted the department of labor and was told basically these people aren’t gonna get paid for that time. If the unpaid time would take their actual wages down to less than minimum wage THEN the depart of labor can help, otherwise this is a lawful practice. As an example, employee is paid 13/hr, they work 20 hours on the clock and 2 hours off. Their check is 260. So if we spread that out across 22 hours, which is what they actually worked, they make 11.81, which is more than minimum so they will be unpaid for that 2 hours.
Labor laws are bullshit in Ohio and I can only modify their hours for so long before my boss catches wind an I get let go over it.