{"id":242,"date":"2008-12-07T22:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-12-08T23:10:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T03:10:55","slug":"us-department-of-labor-issues-opinion-letter-on-volunteering-under-the-flsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2008\/12\/us-department-of-labor-issues-opinion-letter-on-volunteering-under-the-flsa\/","title":{"rendered":"US Department of Labor Issues Opinion Letter on Volunteering Under the FLSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">The US Department of Labor recently issued non-Administrator signed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/esa\/whd\/opinion\/FLSANA\/2008\/2008_09_22_11NA_FLSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion Letter FLSA2008-11NA<\/a>. Although Opinion Letters only apply to the exact set of facts and circumstances presented in each case, they are a valuable aid in understanding current interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Unlike signed Opinion Letters, unsigned Opinion Letters do not \u201cprovide a potential good faith reliance defense for violations of the FLSA.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">This Opinion Letter discusses whether Adult Detention Officers may volunteer as Reserve Sheriff Deputies under the FLSA. According to the Opinion Letter \u201c[p]ublic safety employees taking on any kind of security or safety function within the same local government are never considered to be employed in a <em>different capacity<\/em>.\u201d Therefore, volunteering as deputy sheriffs in the same public agency is not allowed for detention officers under the FLSA. The detention officers may volunteer, however, \u201c[i]f the two employers are not the same public agency\u201d. Opinion Letters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/esa\/WHD\/opinion\/FLSA\/2006\/2006_08_07_28_FLSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">FLSA2006-28<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/esa\/whd\/opinion\/FLSANA\/2006\/2006_10_05_21NA_FLSA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">FLSA2006-21NA<\/a> both discuss how to determine if two employers are the same agency.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">State laws may provide rules that are more beneficial to the employee and must be followed. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vision Payroll<\/span><\/a> if you have questions about this Opinion Letter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor recently issued non-Administrator signed Opinion Letter FLSA2008-11NA. Although Opinion Letters only apply to the exact set of facts and circumstances presented in each case, they are a valuable aid in understanding current interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Unlike signed Opinion Letters, unsigned Opinion Letters do not \u201cprovide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[602,82,47,605,606,601,76,158,151,45,603,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}