Because these conversations happened in the same classroom, not removed and confined to a university class activity or a researchers'
postliminary analysis, talk was grounded in day-to-day teaching.
Generally, the DOL will review time records to discern a regular workday, and while travel from jobsite to jobsite is compensable, employers need not worry about preliminary or
postliminary travel to or from employees' principal activities in ordinary workdays (think commuting time).
This analysis begins by showing how the starting of computers can be viewed as non-compensable pre- and
postliminary activities not "integral and indispensable" to the employees' productive work, and then progresses into a discussion of how booting up and shutting down a computer can be viewed as a digital extension of physical ingress and egress.
security screenings noncompensable
postliminary activities); Sandifer,
to shower in facilities which State law requires their employer to provide, are these "principal," rather than "preliminary" or "
postliminary," activities within the meaning of the Portal-to-Portal Act.
The reason why such walking was not compensable was because it was "preliminary or
postliminary" to the "principal activity" performed by the workers.
solicitor general, said a federal law called the Portal-to-Portal Act specifically exempted employers from paying for so-called ''preliminary and
postliminary'' activities such as time spent commuting, waiting to pick up protective gear or waiting in line to punch the clock.
In a 1946 case, (13) the Court held that this included the time "necessarily spent by employees walking from time clocks near the factory entrance gate to their workstations."' With the passage of the Portal-to-Portal Act, Congress excepted two activities that had been found to be compensable by the Supreme Court: one, walking on the employer's premises to and from the actual place of performance of the principal activity of the employee and two, activities that are "preliminary or
postliminary" to that principal activity.
Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural data, Van Gennep illustrates how rites of passage, which are often linked to culturally defined life crises, consist of three distinct yet interrelated ritual phases: separation (pre-liminary), margin (liminary) and aggregation (
postliminary).
than
postliminary. (46) Thus, while some undercover investigations seek
Accordingly, [section] 4(a)(1) of the act exempts from compensable time "walking, riding, and traveling to and from the actual place of performance of an employee's principal activity or activities," and [section] 4(a)(2) exempts "activities which are preliminary to or
postliminary to said principal activity or activities." (5) What the Portal-to-Portal Act clearly does not do is address compensation for activities occurring between the workday's first and last principal activities.