The plaintiffs bar and the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals - TopicsExpress



          

The plaintiffs bar and the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals keep losing at the Supreme Court, and on Tuesday they got another 9-0 thumping. In Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk, employees filed a putative class-action suit against a company that ships for Amazon , claiming workers were entitled to back pay for time waiting to go through a metal detector to and from work. The 1947 Portal to Portal Act drew clear boundaries around activities that count as part of the official workday for which employees should be paid. Congress wrote the law to address an avalanche of some 1,500 lawsuits filed by unions and employees after the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act passed. Activities had to be “integral and indispensable” to getting the job done.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:32:29 +0000

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