Green v. Planters Nut & Chocolate Co.

This suit was instituted on January 11, 1947, primarily to recover portal to portal pay under § 16(b) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 216(b) as interpreted in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 1946, 328 U.S. 680, 66 S.Ct. 1187, 90 L.Ed. 1515. Subsequent to the institution of the suit, Congress passed the Portal to Portal Pay Act of May 14, 1947, 29 U.S. C.A. § 251 et seq., whereby it is provided that no employer should be subjected to any liability on account of a failure to pay minimum wages or overtime compensation on account of any activity of an employee engaged in prior…