[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR785.25]



[Page 647]

 

                             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.