Cameron v. Bendix Aviation Corporation

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This complaint, filed by 56 employees of the defendant-employer under the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 201 et seq., is for overtime con sisting entirely of time spent standing in line in order to punch the time clock at the beginning of the lunch period allowed each day by the employer. No claim is made in respect of delays in punching out, attributable to any other cause.

There was a maximum of 150 employees in the drafting room where these plaintiffs worked of whom about 130 regularly punched the time clock at the beginning of the…