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...have in recent years largely abandoned this function with the result that rate making has become a much more scientific and a much less time consuming process in the hands of regulatory commissions. Viewed in the light of the courts' past experience with complicated industrial matters, the currently pressing portal-to-portal pay suits appear to be grist for arbitrating bodies or labor-management conferences rather than material or judicial decision...
...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 to the bisque sagger filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take...
...matter of portal-to-portal pay falls in the same classification as other wage and hour disputes, and as such can be settled most effectively by collective bargaining rather than by prolonged litigation with the courts. Workers in some industries are rather obviously entitled to pay for time which they spend readying themselves for work or going from the plant or mine entrance to the place of work. In other industries time thus consumed is negligible and no imposition on the worker...
...genie back into the bottle. In support of the Department's plea that all makeready time should be ruled trifles, he said: ". . . An employer is not entitled to deduct trifling personal-pursuit periods. . . . And an employe should not be entitled to . . . trifling periods of preliminary activity. . . . If portal-to-portal compensation is granted, then the employer will be entitled to keep track of and deduct short periods spent in personal pursuits." Asked Judge Picard: "You think we might do an ultimate injustice to the worker by granting portal-to-portal compensation?" Answered Sonnett: "Yes. . . . On the facts of this...
...another, and uncontested, opinion concerning the Wages & Hours Act, Picard had ruled that an employer is not liable for claims retroactive from the date on which he was notified that such claims were compensable under a new interpretation of the law. Such a ruling on portal pay would cut the claims to very little...