SCOTUS Rejects Cert Bid From DuPont, Handing Win in Pay Dispute to Pa. Workers

The Legal Intelligencer (July 06, 2018, 5:30 PM EDT) By Tom McParland — The decision rejected DuPont’s argument that the Fair Labor Standards Act allowed the company to avoid paying overtime by taking a “credit” for break-time pay and then using it to offset its obligations to compensate its employees for off-the-clock work.

Philadelphia attorneys for a proposed class of DuPont workers last month notched a win before the U.S. Supreme Court when the justices denied its petition for review of a Third Circuit ruling that the Wilmington, Delaware-based chemical giant was required to pay employees overtime for time spent putting on and taking off work gear. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. v. Bobbi-Jo Smiley…

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