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Supreme Court arguments in FLSA case
October 04, 2005 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
I'm a daily reader of SCOTUSblog which keeps tabs on everything happening at the US Supreme Court. For a nice report on the oral arguments dealing with the interplay between the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Portal-to-Portal Act, see Yesterday's Oral Arguments in IBP v. Alvarez and Tum v. Barber Foods.
According to the writer (not unbiased, as she helped write the employees' brief), "The Supreme Court seemed to regard precedent as requiring the compensation of meat-processing workers for time spent ... waiting in line and walking between equipment stations in order to retrieve and return required sanitary and safety gear."
I still think the case is too close to call.
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