A Pennsylvania battery firm has been found responsible for paying $22.25 million in backpay to workers to cover the actual time they spent changing and showering for their jobs working with hazardous materials.
Their employer, East Penn Manufacturing, had argued that it did enough by paying employees for two 10-minute “grace periods” before and after the workday started, a length of time it believed was reasonable. The company maintained that any difference between the time it paid and the actual time it took employees to change a