A federal District Court in Michigan has dismissed a potential class action suit against the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan because it has held that time spent by certain hospital workers laundering and pressing their own hospital scrubs at home is not compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The system employs more than 23,000 people in the metro Detroit area in six hospitals and a network of health centers, medical centers, optometrist’s offices, emergency rooms and pharmacies. It maintains a system-wide personal appearance standards policy to “reflect an image of competence and professionalism.” Employees who fail to comply are subject to progressive punishment, up to and...