William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, Plaintiff v. El Paso Natural Gas Company

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• stating that employees required to remain at home during on-call time actually engaged in personal activities, including, for example, spending time with them families
• deeming it “significant” that employees “were many miles from home when on-call” and “were required to stay on the employers’ premises” in assessing the compensability of standby time
• ability to trade call-back responsibilities increased employee's ability to use off-hours for her own purposes
• held on-call policy not unduly restrictive in part because employees could trade on-call responsibilities
• held on-call policy not unduly restrictive in part because employees could trade on-call responsibilities
• referring to reasonable grounds test as objective

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