A federal district court denied the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction’s motion for summary judgment and granted partial summary judgment to correctional officers on their Fair Labor Standards Act and breach of contract claims for unpaid overtime, finding that officers’ principal activity of maintaining readiness to respond to emergencies begins as soon as they enter prison facilities, making that time compensable, and rejecting the defendant’s de minimis argument and offset defense.
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