A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision clarified whether or not unionized employees should be compensated for time spent putting on and taking off protective gear required in the workplace.
Attorneys at Ogletree Deakins explain that, due to the decision, an employer is not required to compensate an employee for time spent donning and doffing protective gear when the two parties’ collective bargaining agreement does not provide for compensation of that time.
The Supreme Court upheld judgment for the employer in Sandifer vs. U.S. Steel Corp, brought by approximately 800 current and former employees who argued that putting on and taking off protective gear did not count as “changing clothes”—which would not be compensable time under the Fair Labor Standards Act—and therefore they ought to be paid for the time taken.
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