[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR785.25]

[Page 695]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 785_HOURS WORKED--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart C_Application of Principles
 
Sec. 785.25  Illustrative U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

    These principles have guided the Administrator in the enforcement of 
the Act. Two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court further illustrate 
the types of activities which are considered an integral part of the 
employees' jobs. In one, employees changed their clothes and took 
showers in a battery plant where the manufacturing process involved the 
extensive use of caustic and toxic materials. (Steiner v. Mitchell, 350 
U.S. 247 (1956).) In another case, knifemen in a meatpacking plant 
sharpened their knives before and after their scheduled workday 
(Mitchell v. King Packing Co., 350 U.S. 260 (1956)). In both cases the 
Supreme Court held that these activities are an integral and 
indispensable part of the employees' principal activities.