No, they are furloughed. That means their are still employed and they can’t work off the clock.
If you as the employee work off the clock “voluntarily,” your employer is still legally obligated to pay you. You get paid if your employer allows you to work. It doesn’t matter a hoot what sort of agreement there is between the employer and employee.
For instance, many of us have had a boss say “no overtime,” but also say, “you must get this done before tomorrow morning’s Executive meeting.” So what do you do? You work the time and get the job done. The boss is probably hoping that you just do the work for free. But even if you agreed to no overtime and then worked overtime anyway, the employer MUST pay for all time that was actually worked.
The only way an employer can really stop an employee from working is to send the employee home. I repeat, the only way an employer can really stop an employee from working is to send the employee home.
not really. Most of us can work from home quite effectively via the internet.