Current and former employees for Cresco Labs have sued the Illinois-based company, alleging that it violated federal and state law by refusing to pay them for time spent "donning and doffing" personal ...
In Tyger v. Precision Drilling Corp., the Third Circuit Court of Appeals clarified the circumstances under which donning and doffing activities by employees may be compensable under the Fair Labor ...
As we wrote in our January Labor Alert, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp. interpreted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 3(o) to apply to putting on ...
A trade association and the U.S. Labor Department offered very different interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez when they commented on its application to ...
The discussion over this practice, known as "donning" and "doffing," has been going on for years in many industries. Tyson Foods paid out $5.8 million to 3,900 workers over a similar issue last year ...
Law360 (March 12, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT) -- A federal judge has preserved the lion's share of plaintiffs' claims in a collective action accusing Perdue Farms Inc. of violating the Fair Labor Standards ...
Law360 (February 2, 2010, 3:50 PM EST) -- Former Schreiber Foods Inc. employees in a proposed collective action seeking compensation for certain duties performed off the clock cannot recover damages ...
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Judge Richard Posner is raising eyebrows with this opinion, in which he gleefully admits that he went out and bought safety equipment and timed three clerks as they put it on and took it off in ...