U.S. Supreme Court To Hear PPE Case

SACRAMENTO -- The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide between conflicting rulings on whether employers should be required to reimburse workers for the time they must take to don protective clothing.One of the cases the high court accepted is a ruling from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco. The other was from the First Circuit, based in Boston.In the former decision, the appeals court in IBP v. Alvarez ruled that meat processing giant IBP, Inc., was required to rei