BALLOU v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

No. 7602.

433 F.2d 109 (1970)

William R. BALLOU et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

October 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John McMahon, Roxbury, Mass., with whom Angoff, Goldman, Manning & Pyle, Boston, Mass., was on the brief, for appellants.

Laurence S. Fordham, Boston, Mass., with whom David W. Walker and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are apprentices in a program run by appellee, General Electric Company. This program consists of on-the-job training conducted at appellee's plant in Lynn, Massachusetts, and additional classes conducted off appellee's premises by independent educational institutions. Although appellee pays the apprentices' tuition for this outside classwork, it pays them nothing for the time spent in class or preparing for class. Appellants are required...

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