( September 25, 2025, 1:49 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) contends in a response filed Sept. 24 to a U.S. Supreme Court petition for a writ of certiorari that a Third Circuit appellate panel “correctly understood the Fair Labor Standards Act to require compensation for hours actually worked” when ordering a Pennsylvania battery manufacturer to pay its workers for the actual time they spend completing tasks required for their jobs rather than the “time the employer estimates the employees’ work should take.”...