Legal Opinion
Rousseau v. Teledyne Movible Offshore, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Louisiana
Decided October 18, 1985No. Civ. A. 83-2553PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SHAW, District Judge.
Plaintiffs have filed this lawsuit under the Fair Labor Standards Act claiming entitlement to pay for all time not reasonably allocable to eating and sleeping and other personal time when they were off duty but not allowed to leave the barges that they worked on.
In addition to this claim, twenty-four of the original plaintiffs amended their complaint to add a second cause of action under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This cause of action alleges that Teledyne Movible Offshore, Inc., the defendant, laid off these particular plaintiffs on March 1, 1984 in retaliation…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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3Cited by12 opinions
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