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WORLD FENCE NEWS • JULY 2014 • 31 Midwest Tube Mills, Inc. Your Source for Quality Steel Fence Pipe and Tubing Your Source for Quality Steel Fence Pipe and Tubing Midwest Tube Mills, Inc. P.O. Box 830, 2855 Michigan Rd., Madison, IN 47250 812.265.1553 info@midwesttubemills.com www.midwesttubemills.com ROUND SHAPES COLOR We are a leading manufacturer of high quality steel tubing for the high security, industrial/commercial, residential and mechanical markets. You'll find our tubing in: O Chain Link Fences O Pet Kennels O Parks O Playgrounds O Security partitions. We manufacture our pre-galvanized products in a variety of gauges, diameters, and lengths to meet demanding industry standards and superior corrosion resistance. Contact your local distributor when requirements call for durable, high quality pipe and tube products. MT 40 High Strength for High Security, Industrial/Commercial O MT 30 Heavy Commercial/Industrial O MT 20 Light Commercial/Industrial MT 15 Light Commercial/Residential O MTR Residential/Ornamental O Shapes Square/rectangular O MTC Color Coat At Midwest Tube Mills, manufacturing quality product is just part of the story. "We believe in providing individualized customer service. We have built our business on understanding and responding to our customer's needs. We also understand that on time delivery is critical in running your business and our on time rates are among the best in the industry." - Rick Russell, CEO/President portal of the mine, the only time spent in such travel which the employer is required to count as hours worked will be the time spent in traveling from the portal to the working face at the begin- ning of the workday. Section 4 of the Portal Act does not affect the computation of hours worked within the "workday'' proper, roughly described as mentioned ear- lier, the period "from whistle to whis- tle,'' and its provisions have nothing to do with the compensability under the Fair Labor Standards Act of any activ- ities engaged in by an employee dur- ing that period. Under the provisions of section 4, one of the conditions that must be present before "preliminary'' or "postliminary'' activities are excluded from hours worked is that they 'occur either prior to the time on any particu- lar workday at which the employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases' the principal activity or activi- ties which he is employed to perform. Accordingly, to the extent that ac- tivities engaged in by an employee occur after the employee commences to perform the first principal activity on a particular workday and before he ceases the performance of the last principal activity on a particular work- day, the provisions of that section have no application. Periods of time between the com- mencement of the employee's first principal activity and the completion of his last principal activity on any workday must be included in the com- putation of hours worked to the same extent as would be required if the Por- tal Act had not been enacted. The principles for determining hours worked within the "workday'' proper will continue to be those estab- lished under the Fair Labor Standards Act without reference to the Portal Act, which is concerned with this question only as it relates to time spent outside the "workday'' in activities of the kind described in section 4. Important reminder from last month… Without getting too complicated, when computing compensable travel time try to always use my "Rule of Dumb (thumb)" that compensable time "Begins as soon as the employee begins any work related activity, and ends as soon as the employee ends all work related activities, regardless of what that activity is." If you have any further questions about the "Portal-to-Portal Act" please do not hesitate to contact me at Profit Builders International, 941-981-3677 or e-mail tluby@profitbuilder.org. I will try to answer any specific portal to portal questions but I must again qualify that I am not a lawyer and any interpretation of the law is only my learned opinion. Tom Luby, Profit Builders Interna- tional (PBI), has developed the Roadmap to Success program, which offers valuable business information necessary to successfully operate a fencing company. He has conducted business seminars as part of the edu- cational programs at the FenceTech and Jackpot conven- tions. Tom's entire "Roadmap to Suc- cess" program is available on CD, along with "The Close" and "The Roadmap to Suc- cess" user manual. Contact PBI at 3421 10th Lane West, Palmetto, FL 33221. Office phone 941-981-3677, cell 941-807-7666, fax 941-981-3677. www.profitbuilder.org. Tom Luby Northern Ohio AFA slates golf outing The Northern Ohio AFA will host its 38th annual golf outing on July 25 at Lost Nation Municipal Golf Course in Willoughby, Ohio. The deadline to RSVP is Friday, July 12, according to the chapter. Contact the association to register to play, and for hole sponsorships. The golf course is located at 38890 Hodgson Rd. in Willoughby. Tee off for the tourney is 10 a.m. The cost for the golf is $95 per player including lunch and beverages on the course. Hole sponsorships are available for $175 each. Door prize donations are also being sought. Request a registration form from Tom Legerski at 918-906-7243, or e-mail tlegerski@ameristarfence.com. Then fax completed form to Kalinich Fence at 440-238-2178. Checks may be sent in advance to Kalinich Fence at 12223 Prospect Rd, Strongsville, OH 44149.