Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.

Holding that summary judgment is not appropriate if "the dispute about a material fact is ‘genuine,’ that is, if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party"

Celotex Corp. v. Catrett

Holding that a movant's summary judgment motion should be granted "against a [nonmovant] who fails to make a showing sufficient to establish the existence of an element essential to that party's case, and on which that party will bear the burden of proof at trial"

Auer v. Robbins

Holding that a federal agency's interpretation of a regulation is controlling where it is not "plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation"

Barrentine v. Ark.-Best Freight Sys.

Holding that Fair Labor Standards Act claims may be brought in federal court notwithstanding an arbitration provision in a CBA

IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez

Holding that time spent walking between the locker room and the production area after donning protective gear is compensable work under the FLSA

Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.

Holding that "the damage is. . . certain" where employee proved that he performed work that was not paid in accordance with the statutes, and that damages can then be awarded if there is a "basis for a reasonable inference as to the extent of the damages"

Arnold v. Ben Kanowsky, Inc.

Holding that employer bears burden of proof, on each and every element of the claimed exemption

Tennessee Coal Co. v. Muscoda Local

Holding that underground travel to iron ore mines was compensable work

Steiner v. Mitchell

Holding "old but clean work clothes" integral

Alvarez v. IBP, Inc.

Holding that time spent donning and doffing safety goggles and hardhats, although essential to the job and required by the employer, is at once so insubstantial and so difficult to monitor that it is noncompensable as de minimis

Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

Section 207 - Maximum hours

Establishing overtime rules

Section 254 - Relief from liability and punishment under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the Walsh-Healey Act, and the Bacon-Davis Act for failure to pay minimum wage or overtime compensation

Precluding compensation for certain travel that "occur either prior to the time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases, such principal activity or activities"

Section 666 - Civil and criminal penalties

Penalizing false statement in health and safety report required under this chapter

Section 653 - Geographic applicability; judicial enforcement; applicability to existing standards; report to Congress on duplication and coordination of Federal laws; workmen's compensation law or common law or statutory rights, duties, or liabilities of employers and employees unaffected

Establishing that nothing in the OSHA statute "shall be construed to ... enlarge or diminish or affect in any other manner the common law or statutory rights, duties or liabilities of employers and employees under any law ..."

Section 662 - Injunction proceedings

Providing that the "district court shall have jurisdiction to grant such injunctive relief or temporary restraining order pending the outcome of an enforcement proceeding pursuant to this chapter"

Section 461 - Offenses and punishment

Section 790.6 - Periods within the "workday" unaffected

Defining "workday" as "the period between the commencement and completion on the same workday of an employee's principal activity or activities ... includ[ing] all time within that period whether or not the employee engages in work throughout all of that period"

Section 790.8 - "Principal" activities

Explaining that the term "principal activities" was "considered sufficiently broad to embrace within its terms such activities as are indispensable to the performance of productive work "

Section 785.47 - Where records show insubstantial or insignificant periods of time

Codifying Anderson in regulation

Section 1910.132 - General requirements

Mandating PPE "wherever it is necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation or physical contact"

Section 778.106 - Time of payment

Requiring timely overtime payments

Section 1910.136 - Foot protection

Outlining what footwear employers must ensure employees use under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which requires protection against falling or rolling objects, objects piercing the sole, and when an employee's feet are exposed to electrical wires

Section 416.5 - Employee hygiene

Section 110.10 - Personnel

Requiring the removal of "all unsecured jewelry and other objects that might fall into food"

Section 500.2 - Regulatory control action

Section 430.4 - Control of Listeria monocytogenes in post-lethality exposed ready-to-eat products

Requiring testing and controls for listeria only in ready-to-eat pork products