principal activity or activities
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 350 U.S. 247 - Steiner v. Mitchell · 1956Most cited · 799 citing opinions
Activities performed either before or after the regular work shift, on or off the production line, are compensable under the portal-to-portal provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act if those activities are an integral and indispensable part of the principal activities for which covered workmen are employed and are not specifically excluded by Section 4(a)(1).
How often courts cite the case defining “principal activity or activities”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “principal activity or activities” — 796 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.