Kafka was spared military service as an "indispensable worker".
Limiting employers' wage payment obligation only to time spent on tasks "integral and indispensable" to the workers' principal activities may boost the corporate bottom line.
They argue the FLSA does not apply to time spent on pre- or post-shift tasks an employer imposes and benefits from, unless those activities are "integral and indispensable" to the workers' "principal activities".
Doing so, he says, helps young workers become indispensable to their seniors and enhances their personal brand.
In our white paper recommendations, sent to Burstow last month, the College of Social Work urges the government to act on the evidence from service users that, for many of them, the support of social workers is indispensable if they are to live the lives they want.
Hence, training and developing the indigenous health workers is indispensable as a part of a capacity building measure in view of sustainable development.
Maintenance workers, of course, call themselves indispensable.
Workers were hailed as the indispensable backbone of a growing, industrialising economy and, as a well-earned reward, were given the day off.
This may seem counterintuitive, but Asher counsels workers not to make themselves indispensable in their current jobs.
