handling

handling
As used in the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1918, the word has been defined as those physical operations customarily performed in obtaining agricultural or horticultural commodities from producers' farms, transporting them to and receiving them at the establishment, weighing them or otherwise determining on what basis the producer is to be paid, placing them in the establishment where further operations are to be performed, and delivering the commodities to warehouses. Gordon v Paducah Ice Mfg. Co. (DC Ky) 41 F Supp 980.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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