Correct decision by Supremes

This WaPo article describes a case where the U.S. Supreme Court made the correct decision.

This is an area of the law I personally studied over a decade ago when an employer was trying to rip me (and the other low paid workers) off by encouraging us not to be paid for work preliminary but integral to the job.

What is hard to understand is (1) why Tyson foods would think that it didn't have to pay the workers for the time it took them to walk to their workstation from the location where they had to put on special protective gear; and (2) why some lower court judges actually bought the argument.

I'm afraid that this type of illegal behavior on the part of employers is rampant in the U.S.

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[Michael A. Clem]

(2) is the answer to (1), even if we don't have an answer to (2). Tyson thought that, under the current system, they could get away with it, and they probably would have, too, if it hadn't been taken up by the Supreme Court.