The best-designed and engineered items of personal protective equipment (PPE) will fail healthcare workers and their patients if the PPE is donned or doffed incorrectly and contamination is spread.

A trade association and the U.S. Labor Department offered very different interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez when they commented on its application to ...

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp., No. 12-417 (January 27, 2014) should serve as an impetus for all employers to review their pay practices with respect ...

As federal and state safety and health guidelines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic call for extensive use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the workplace, employers should give their ...

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It is important that workers know how to properly put on and take off their PPE to protect themselves and those in their households. COVID-19 continues to be a concern for everyone. As we experience ...

Current and former employees for Cresco Labs have sued the Illinois-based company, alleging that it violated federal and state law by refusing to pay them for time spent "donning and doffing" personal ...

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit employees filed against Perdue Farms Inc. in December 1999, and both sides hope it will resolve the long-disputed issue of whether or not Perdue ...

Law360, New York ( October 2, 2013, 5:21 PM EDT) -- Donning and doffing is a hot area of wage and hour law that often leads to class and collective actions and, as a result, creates significant ...

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Judge Richard Posner is raising eyebrows with this opinion, in which he gleefully admits that he went out and bought safety equipment and timed three clerks as they put it on and took it off in ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A federal judge has ruled in favor of Denver police officers who want to get paid for the time it takes them to dress and undress -- a so called "donning and doffing" lawsuit. In a ...