Late night e-mail check may mean payouts for employee’s lost wages - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

Back in 1938 when the Fair Labor Standards Act was drafted, the concept of personal digital assistants and cell phones was not even close to a figment in anyone’s imagination.

Now these devices are mainstream, entrenched in today’s desire and necessity for the latest in connectivity technology. The technology has spawned a whole new morass of dangers and technicalities for labor lawyers and their clients trying to avoid lawsuits and match the 71-year-old FLSA requirements with the use of palmtop devices such as BlackBerrys and iPhones or laptops...