http://www.oyez.org/issues/unions/flsa/ U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1959/1959_60/ <p>Must sergeants and lieutenants in the St. Louis Police Department be paid for working overtime pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?</p><p>No. In a unanimous decision, authored by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court ruled that sergeants and lieutenants are exempt as salaried employees from the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The justices rejected the argument that the possibility of suspension without pay moves the officers out of the exempt category.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1996/1996_95_897/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1972/1972_71_1598/ <p>Does the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 prohibit a public employer from compelling its employees to use their compensatory time without a preexisting agreement?</p><p>No. In an opinion delivered by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Court held 6-3 that "[n]othing in the FLSA or its implementing regulations prohibits a public employer from compelling the use of compensatory time." Justice Thomas wrote for the Court that, "under the FLSA, an employer is free to require an employee to take time off work, and an employer is also free to use the money it would have paid in wages to cash out accrued compensatory time. The compelled use of compensatory time challenged in this case merely involves doing both of these steps at once."</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1999/1999_98_1167/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_86_88/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1981/1981_81_255/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1972/1972_71_1021/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1973/1973_72_844/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1960/1960_274/ <p>Did the Fair Labor Standards Act require employers to pay employees for time spent walking to and from stations that distributed required safety equipment?</p><p>Yes. Justice John Paul Stevens, for a unanimous Court, wrote that putting on required safety equipment qualified as a "principal activity" under the FLSA. The workday began when employees started that activity and therefore included the subsequent time spent walking to the worksite. The time spent waiting to put on safety equipment before that, however, was not included in the workday because it was a "preliminary" activity under the Portal-to-Portal Act.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2005/2005_03_1238/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1965/1965_30/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1954/1954_357/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1967/1967_742/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1987/1987_86_1520/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1955/1955_278/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1959/1959_39/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1959/1959_83/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1958/1958_161/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1955/1955_39/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1958/1958_37/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1992/1992_92_1/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1955/1955_22/ <p>No details yet.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1984/1984_83_1935/