In Tyger v. Precision Drilling Corp., the Third Circuit Court of Appeals clarified the circumstances under which donning and doffing activities by employees may be compensable under the Fair Labor ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. “Donning and doffing” is a hot-bed issue impacting ...

Judge Richard Posner is raising eyebrows with this opinion, in which he gleefully admits that he went out and bought safety equipment and timed three clerks as they put it on and took it off in ...

A trade association and the U.S. Labor Department offered very different interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez when they commented on its application to ...

As we wrote in our January Labor Alert, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp. interpreted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 3(o) to apply to putting on ...

Proper hand hygiene should always be performed using an alcohol-based solution. The first PPE to be donned is the gown, in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

The high court also ruled that workers must be compensated for the time they spend waiting to doff (take off) safety gear, but the court concluded that workers are off the clock when waiting to don ...

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Are dental healthcare personnel (DHCP) properly using personal protective equipment (PPE)? Researchers used a fluorescent marker to illustrate pathogen transmission and assessed PPE donning and ...