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CFR  

Code of Federal Regulations Pertaining to ESA

Title 29  

Labor

 

Chapter V  

Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor

 

 

Part 785  

Hours Worked

 

 

 

Subpart C  

Application of Principles

29 CFR 785.25 - Illustrative U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

  • Section Number: 785.25
  • Section Name: Illustrative U.S. Supreme Court decisions. 
    These principles have guided the Administrator in the enforcement of 
the Act. Two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court further illustrate 
the types of activities which are considered an integral part of the 
employees' jobs. In one, employees changed their clothes and took 
showers in a battery plant where the manufacturing process involved the 
extensive use of caustic and toxic materials. (Steiner v. Mitchell, 350 
U.S. 247 (1956).) In another case, knifemen in a meatpacking plant 
sharpened their knives before and after their scheduled workday 
(Mitchell v. King Packing Co., 350 U.S. 260 (1956)). In both cases the 
Supreme Court held that these activities are an integral and 
indispensable part of the employees' principal activities.
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