Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.

Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 29, 1946 Decided June 10, 1946
Full case name	Anderson, et al. v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.
Citations	328 U.S. 680 (more) 66 S. Ct. 1187; 90 L. Ed. 1515; 1946 U.S. LEXIS 3065; 11 Lab. Cas. (CCH) ¶ 51,233
Case history
Prior	Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 60 F. Supp. 146 (E.D. Mich. 1943); reversed, Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. v. Anderson, 149 F.2d 461 (6th Cir. 1945); cert. granted, 326 U.S. 706 (1945).
Subsequent	Petition for rehearing denied, 329 U.S. 822 (1946).
Holding
Preliminary work activities, if controlled by the employer and performed entirely for the employer's benefit, are properly included in the statutory workweek under Fair Labor Standards Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice vacant Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Murphy, joined by Black, Reed, Douglas, Rutledge
Dissent	Burton, joined by Frankfurter
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
Fair Labor Standards Act
Abrogated by
Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947

Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 328 U.S. 680 (1946), is a decision by the US Supreme Court that held that preliminary work activities, if controlled by the employer and performed entirely for the employer's benefit, are properly included as working time under Fair Labor Standards Act.^[1] The decision is known as the "portal to portal case."

The Supreme Court reaffirmed Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery in its 2016 ruling in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, No. 14-1146 (March 22, 2016).