Section 260-RICR-30-05-2.4 - Payment of Wages2.4.1PurposeThe purpose of this § 2.4 of this Part is to regulate the requirements and methods of payment employers must comply with and use in recompensing employees for all hours worked.
2.4.2ExemptionsA. If an employee works both in an activity which is exempt from the payment of wages at time and one-half and in work for which wages at time and one-half are mandated by law pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 25-3, then the employer shall pay wages at time and one-half for the total hours worked by that employee in both activities, unless all hours for each activity are separately stated by the employer.B. If an employee works for an employer, doing more than one task, or at a location different from his regular place of employment, whether owned by the employer or in which the employer shares a common ownership, all hours worked by that employee shall be recompensed at time and one-half.C. Department hereby adopts the definition and delimiting of the terms "Any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capacity," incorporated above at § 2.2(A) of this Part in order to define employees who are exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements.D. If an employee is prevented from working a normal shift by reason of events beyond the control of the employer or by "Acts of God" so-called, then such employee shall not be entitled to three (3) hours minimum wages under R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-12-3.2.E. If an employee is required by an employer to attend a seminar, conference, training session or other such meeting, which is job-related, then the time spent by the employee in so attending shall be considered and recompensed as work time, even if it occurs outside of the employee's usual work time.F. If an employer requires an employee to report to work at any of the employer's places of business and then to travel to another location in order to commence the employee's normal work shift, then the time spent in so traveling shall be considered and recompensed as work time.260 R.I. Code R. 260-RICR-30-05-2.4
Amended effective 11/27/2018