Gerber Products Company D/b/a Nestlé Infant Nutrition D/b/a Nestlé Nutrition USA D/b/a Nestlé Nutrition Usa-Infant…

Summary

The court held that mandatory donning, doffing, related preparation, and specified walking and waiting activities constitute compensable work under the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act. It further held that the Act does not incorporate the federal exception permitting collective-bargaining agreements or customs to exclude clothes-changing time, and affirmed partial summary judgment establishing Gerber's liability. Justice Wood, dissenting, would have enforced the collective-bargaining arrangement and reversed because the employees' wages exceeded the statutory minimum.