6th Circuit: Ordinary Commute Time, Meal Periods Not Compensable

Mealey's (April 11, 2019, 9:33 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A Michigan federal court erred when it ruled in a suit by the U.S. secretary of Labor that ordinary commute time and bona fide meal periods were compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled April 5, vacating a damages award against an employer and remanding for recalculation (Secretary of Labor v. Timberline South, LLC, et al., No. 18-1763, 6th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 10072)....