United States Second Circuit

Preliminary time an employee spends before work officially starts may count for the minimum hour requirement for eligibility under 29 U.S.C. - 2611(2)(A) of the Family Medical Leave Act, even if that time is not compensable under the Portal-to-Portal Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/04/2001
• Decided 12/20/2001
• Published 12/20/2001

Judges

• TRAGER, District Judge., Before:  CABRANES and KEARSE, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William D. Frumkin,Sapir & Frumkin LLP, White Plans, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Henry L. Solano, Solicitor of Labor U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, DC, (Allen H. Feldman, Nathaniel I. Spiller, and Elizabeth Hopkins on the brief) for Amicus Curiae United States Supporting Plaintiff-Appellant., Eugene Prosnitz, Bronx, NY, for Amicus Curiae New York Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers' Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jordy Rabinowitz, Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., Great Neck, NY, for Defendant-Appellee., Ann Elizabeth Reesman,McGuiness Norris & Williams LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Equal Employment Advisory Council in Support of Defendant-Appellee.