Section 59 Preparatory and Concluding Activities

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947, 61 Stat. 84, also states that employers do not need to compensate employees for activities that are “preliminary to or postliminary” to the principal activity for which they are employed. 29 U.S.C. § 254(a)(2). Nevertheless, the Supreme Court has determined that activities performed before or after the regular work shift are compensable if those activities are an integral and indispensable part of the principal activities. Steiner v. Mitchell, 350 U.S. 247, 256 (1956). In...