A few years ago I worked at a restaurant. While training, our pay was $7.50 and after training the normal pay was $8.50. One day the fire alarm went off and we were closed for a few hours. Instead of letting us go home, management made us stand outside, turning away customers and handing out coupons for the inconvenience. The problem is because we weren’t “doing our normal job” (I was a host), they made us clock in under the training wage for the hours we couldn’t go inside. When the alarm got fixed, we were able to re-clock in under our normal wages. Was this legal? Took place in North Carolina. Nothing I can do about it now but I’m curious.