Trifles and Tribulations: Supreme Court Decides Meaning of “Changing Clothes” Under § 203(o) of the FLSA

The Supreme Court ruled today that steelworkers are not entitled to pay for time spent changing into flame-retardant suits, hardhats, gloves, and other protective items where their union agreed to exclude that time from the compensable workday.  In doing so, the Court took a refreshingly pragmatic approach to an area that previously has been interpreted in a legalistic way and that the Court itself characterized as “all about trifles.”

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