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A Supreme Court decision involving employees of the Mt. Clemens, Mich., Pottery Co., has led to the filing of some $5,000,000,000 in portal suits.
Upholding a decision by Federal district judge Frank Picard in the Mt. Clemens case, the Supreme Court held that employers are liable for pay for time employees must spend on their property, even though it is not spent at productive labor.
A way out of the jungle of portal-to-portal pay suits was suggested last week by the U.S. Department of Justice. It asked Detroit's Federal Court judge, Frank A. Picard, to dismiss the Mount Clemens Pottery Co. case (TIME, Dec.
It is important to note that the United Mine Workers in their trial of the issues actually waived their claims for walking-time on the employer's premises, before punching the time-clocks and for time spent in preliminary activities-the very gist of the Mt. Clemens decision.
Little Fire. It had all started in the little-noticed 5-to-2 decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Michigan's Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. Edward Lamb, who practices law in Toledo as a hobby, had represented 1,200 unionized pottery employes in a simple suit...