portal-to-portal

[pawr-tl-tuh-pawr-tl, pohr-tl-tuh-pohr-t]

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to the time a worker spends from entering the workplace to stepping outside, especially in relation to pay.

portal-to-portal

adjective

1. of or relating to the period between the actual times workers enter and leave their mine, factory, etc

   portal-to-portal pay

Example Sentences

The feature works in the US and the UK The feature works with Portal-to-Portal video calls for users in the US and UK.

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The inspector general’s office also investigated complaints that during his time as VA secretary, Shulkin used his security detail to take him to nonofficial events — despite a risk assessment that determined he required only “portal-to-portal” protection, or protection that ends once the subject goes home at the end of the business day.

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The court was examining the Portal-to-Portal Act, which Congress passed in 1947 to exempt companies from having to pay overtime for certain activities that take place before and after a worker’s shift.

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Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan concurred in the decision but also wrote to say they understood the Portal-to-Portal Act to distinguish between the ingress and egress process, on one hand, and activities that constitute actual work of consequence, on the other.

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Saying that a 1947 law, the “Portal-to-Portal Act” decreed that the extra time had to be “integral and indispensable” to the warehouse work of taking packages off shelves and prepping them for delivery, the unanimous opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, said the workers didn’t deserve to be paid for the screening time, which the plaintiffs said could take up to 25 minutes.

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