Does your company need to pay nonexempt employees who respond to off-the-clock emails and texts? Quite possibly, according to a recent blog post from Lucas Muñoz of DLA Piper.

“In the eyes of state and federal wage and hour law, answering a work email from the couch on Saturday or from a bar on Tuesday night is no different than from the office on Monday,” writes Muñoz.

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