Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/01/supreme-court-rules-for-steel-company-in-labor-case.php
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Supreme Court rules for steel company in labor case
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday in Sandifer v. US Steel Corp. [SCOTUS Blog backgrounder] that employees are not entitled to compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) [text, PDF] for time spent changing in and out of protective gear. The FLSA governs minimum wages and maximum hours for certain employees and specifically excludes the time it takes to change clothes from hours worked, unless otherwise specified in a collective bargaining agreement. A group...
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