Legal to Pay Agents Only for Available Time?

Agent compensation/benefits

Oct 05, 2007

The CEO of my company is requiring us to begin paying all of our call center agents for available time only. We are still requiring them to be in the call center for a specific shift, but any time not in available (i.e., wrap up, bathroom, outbound calls, etc.) will not be paid. Is this a legal way of paying call center agents? -- Sandra Evans, Coremark Technologies

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