Change in Working Hours

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1. Does management prerogative include reasonable changes in work schedules?
2. Does a schedule change alone eliminate overtime protection for a covered employee?
3. Under Article 84, what matters when deciding whether a scheduled break counts as work?
4. A company reasonably moves a covered employee’s eight-hour daytime schedule from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. to 9 a.m.–6 p.m., each w…
5. An employer renames an existing on-duty period a lunch break but still requires the employee to handle incoming work th…
6. A covered employee’s schedule is changed to ten actual work hours on each of four days. There is no lawful compressed-w…
7. A CBA expressly guarantees a particular paid break. Management unilaterally removes payment while requiring the same du…
8. Explain management’s authority to change working hours and the principal limits on that authority.
9. Explain why Sime Darby’s schedule ruling does not mean every employer may relabel paid duty time as an unpaid lunch bre…
10. A schedule is changed to ten actual work hours daily for four days without a lawful compressed-workweek arrangement or …
11. In Sime Darby, why did applying the revised schedule to similarly situated union and nonunion employees matter?
12. Does a change affecting union members automatically constitute unfair labor practice under Sime Darby?