working time
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 324 U.S. 793 - Republic Aviation Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · 1945Most cited · 1,929 citing opinions
union solicitation rules
Working time is for work. It is therefore within the province of an employer to promulgate and enforce a rule prohibiting union solicitation during working hours. Such a rule must be presumed to be valid in the absence of evidence that it was adopted for a discriminatory purpose.
How often courts cite the cases defining “working time”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “working time” — 3,385 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1944–1945
- ORIGINAL
Whether time is spent predominantly for the employer's benefit or for the employee's is a question dependent upon all the circumstances of the case.
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