DuPont Can’t Get Worker Pay Case Reviewed by Supreme Court (1)

DuPont won’t get to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that it doesn’t have to pay manufacturing plant employees for time they spend donning and doffing protective gear, the court said June 28.

The high court narrowed the circumstances under which employers have to pay for the time workers spend on tasks before and after their shifts. in a 2014 decision involving pickers at an Amazon warehouse. Those workers weren’t entitled to pay for the time they spent waiting to pass through anti-theft screenings after their shifts because they could perform their primary duty—picking—whether or not they stood in a ...