29 C.F.R. § 785.25
Illustrative U.S. Supreme Court decisions
These principles have guided the Administrator in the enforcement of the Act. Two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court further illustrate the types of activities which are considered an integral part of the employees' jobs. In one, employees changed their clothes and took showers in a battery plant where the manufacturing process involved the extensive use of caustic and toxic materials. (Steiner v. Mitchell, 350 U.S. 247 (1956).) In another case, knifemen in a meatpacking plant sharpened their knives before and after their scheduled workday (Mitchell v. King Packing Co., 350 U.S. 260 (1956)). In both cases the Supreme Court held that these activities are an integral and indispensable part of the employees' principal activities.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1995–2025 · leading case: Buero v. Amazon.com Services, Inc.
Buero v. Amazon.com Services, Inc. (2022)
“Steiner, 350 US at 256 ; King Packing, 350 US at 261 ; see also 29 CFR § 785.25 (discussing Steiner, King Packing, and the “integral and indispensable” test).”
Lindsey Buero v. amazon.com Services, Inc. (2023)
“Steiner, 350 US at 256 ; King Packing, 350 US at 261 ; see also 29 CFR § 785.25 (discussing Steiner, King Packing, and the “integral and indispensable” test).”
Hatcher v. Hines (2025)
“2011) (explaining that the Portal-to-Portal Act did “not purport to change earlier definitions of compensable work”); see also 29 C.F.R. § 785.25 (“An employee who travels from home before his [or her] regular workday and returns to his [or her] home at the end of the workday is…”
Peck v. NGM Insurance (1995)
“1994); 29 C.F.R. § 785.25 Peck also received rush requests quite often, at least once, but sometimes three to four times per week.”
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