Notice 2011-72, the IRS explains that cell phones are often provided by employers not to compensate employees but with what the IRS calls non-compensatory purposes.

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In 2009 an arbitrator ruled that the EEOC had willfully violated the FLSA by giving its non-exempt workers compensatory time rather than paid overtime.

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