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Responding to emails and text messages

I’ve seen a lot of posts about wage theft regarding being “on-call” to answer emails, calls, and text messages from supervisors and coworkers. I want to be non-confrontational since I just received a promotion but I feel as though I should be paid when answering emails or messages on days that I’m not scheduled to work. How do I go about this or am I wrong since answering these communications only takes a couple of minutes? It would feel silly to clock in to respond to an email but all the minutes I spend will add up significantly after a few months.


I’ve seen a lot of posts about wage theft regarding being “on-call” to answer emails, calls, and text messages from supervisors and coworkers. I want to be non-confrontational since I just received a promotion but I feel as though I should be paid when answering emails or messages on days that I’m not scheduled to work. How do I go about this or am I wrong since answering these communications only takes a couple of minutes? It would feel silly to clock in to respond to an email but all the minutes I spend will add up significantly after a few months.

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