I work for an employer that sets up mandatory meetings and requires us to be there or be fired but she does not pay us for them. These meetings are basically complaint fests there is no training involved. I can not find any laws that state we are to be paid for our time since we are required to be there or be fired. Can anyone please help me? Every other job I've ever had in CO has always paid for these types of meetings because they said it was CO law. I would greatly appreciate anyone's help in finding this law. Thank you.
Vicki

The question is whether you are a Non-Exempt employee legally required to be paid based on hours actually worked or an Exempt Salaried employee not legally required to be paid based on hours actually worked. If you are an Exempt Salaried employee, then you are never due additional compensation for working extra hours. If however you are Non-Exempt, then the following rules are applicable:

Federal Hours Worked rules (http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/whdfs22.pdf)

Lectures, Meetings and Training Programs: Attendance at lectures, meetings, training programs and similar activities need not be counted as working time only if four criteria are met, namely: it is outside normal hours, it is voluntary, not job related, and no other work is concurrently performed.