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Section 203(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act excludes from the definition of hours worked time spent “changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each workday” if it has been excluded “by the express terms of or by custom or practice under a bona fide collective-bargaining agreement.”  However, the term “clothes” is

The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Corp. makes clear that an employee need not make a written complaint, but can make an oral complaint, in order to be protected against retaliation for filing a complaint regarding violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  However, did the Supreme