The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit sided with an employee in a wage dispute, concluding a company is required to pay its employees for the time they spend traveling to and from job sites during normal working hours under the Fair Labor and Standards Act.
An Oct. 30 order, authored by Judge Michael B. Brennan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, determined Professional Labor Group employees’ time spent traveling to remote job sites during normal working hours is compensable under the FLSA. The federal appellate court’s decision in Walters v. Professional Labor Group affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana’s decision to grant summary judgment to former PLG employee James Walters. Chief Judge Diane S. Sykes and Judge Doris Pryor concurred.
