U.S. High Court Sides with Ninth Circuit on PPE Issue – Employers Must Pay – for Time it Takes to Don Gear

In a ruling handed down earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with San Francisco's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the issue of whether employers must pay for the time workers take to put on and take off personal protective equipment.The ruling settles conflicting opinions, with the First Circuit court, based in Boston, having taken the opposite view.The court chose between two cases. IBP v. Alvarez, was a 1999 lawsuit by workers at the meat-packing giant's Pasco, Wash.,