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The complex minuteness of even the smallest portal-to-portal suit is indicated by Judge Picard's opinion in the progenitor of all such suits--the Mount Clemens Pottery Company case. He quotes as an indispensable part of his decision such fascinating statistics as these: mean distance from time clock...
If the employer is trying to avoid the intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act by "encouraging" workers to put in time for which there is no remuneration, he is a fair target for civil or criminal legal action. But this is not the case in most of the $5...
The genie, at that time safely encased in the bottle, first rolled up on the industrial shore in 1943. Then, workers at Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. sued, under the Wages & Hours Act, for time spent in the plant before the whistle blew. (They were required to punch the time clock...
But when the case reached the Supreme Court, the genie suddenly grew to enormous size. The Court held that Judge Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only...
So last week, Judge Picard opened re-hearings on the Mt. Clemens case, to measure the trifles. It should have been easy. He had gone to the Mt. Clemens plant himself, to check on makeready practices from time clocks to work benches. He wanted everyone to agree that it took...