Ernesto Adrian-Favela v. Empire Scaffold, L

KING, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellee Empire Scaffold, LLC, employed Plaintiffs-Appellants Darwin Keith Bridges, Rodrigo Gonzalez, and Jesus Alanis to erect and dismantle scaffolding for the Motiva Crude Expansion Project. Bridges, Gonzalez, and Alanis sued Empire for failing to compensate them for pre-shift wait time under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The -district court granted summary judgment to Empire,- effectively holding that the pre-shift wait time at issue here is excluded from compensation under the Portal-to-Portal Act. We AFFIRM.

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Motiva Enterprises, LLC (“Motiva”), is an oil…