An Employer of an Emergency Response Service Required Its Service

question 21

Essay

An employer of an emergency response service required its service employees to be on call every weekend, as they might be called to report within 10 minutes. While on call, employees were not permitted to leave their homes, as the employer's contact was to their home phones. Also, employees were not permitted to drink alcohol on the weekends, because of their potential on-call duties. The employer did not pay for on-call weekends, and the employees sued. What are the issues, and what should the court decide? ​

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Definitions:

Pooled Standard Deviation

The combined standard deviation of two or more groups of data, used when the groups have a common or similar mean but differ in sample size.

Sample Means

The average value calculated from a sample of a population.

Centerline

In statistics, the centerline often refers to the median value in a dataset or the middle line in a control chart that represents the average level of performance.

Process Capability Index

The process capability index is a statistical measure that quantifies how well a process can produce output within specified limits compared to the allowable spread of specification limits.