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portal-to-portal pay

Portal-to-portal pay is an employee's earnings from the time they step foot on their employer's property until the time they leave.

(noun)

An example of portal-to-portal pay is a landscaper getting paid for three hours spent at an employer's house, while only doing actual work for two of those hours.

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See portal-to-portal pay in Webster's New World College Dictionary

wages for workers based on the total time spent from the moment of entering the mine, factory, etc. until the moment of leaving it

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