A worker at Ford Motor Co.'s joint-venture battery plant in Kentucky is suing over unpaid time spent putting on mandatory "protective footwear" before and after shifts.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court, seeks overtime pay for the amount of time it takes workers to put on the company-issued footgear necessary "to perform their jobs in a sanitary environment" at the BlueOval SK factory in Glendale, Kentucky, according to a court filing.

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