Employees required to sleep overnight in their employer’s group homes for persons with disabilities are entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the First Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed. The employer’s system of seven days on and seven days off, with the employees being required to be on the premises for 24 hours each day, requires the overtime pay, it has held. Port Resources uses a “long term staff” model to provide services to adults with developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges. It computes its payroll workweek from Sunday to Sunday, but requires its employees to work a full week from Thursday to Thursday. It pays for 40 hours of work the...