Case: Wage & Hour/Preliminary and Postliminary Activities (N.D. Ohio)

A manufacturing employee may proceed with proposed class claims that Adient US LLC violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and Ohio law by failing to compensate her and other workers for time spent walking to and from workstations and gathering tools and equipment, but her claims about not being paid for the time employees spent changing in and out of their protective clothing and gear aren’t viable, a federal district court in Ohio ruled. Adient had a longstanding policy and practice of not compensating donning and doffing time, and was permitted to do so under the FLSA because this custom ...