. For the following activities, employers do not have to pay employees the minimum wage: (1) walking, riding, or traveling to and from the actual place of performance of the principal activity or activities which such employee is employed to perform, and (2) activities which are preliminary to or postliminary to said principal activity or activities, which occur either prior to the time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases, such principal activity or activities. 29 U.S.C. § 254(a). 15 . The district court stated that it "is bound by the opinions of the Courts of Appeal.” Even if the Fifth Circuit opinion was on point, it would not be binding on this court or the district cour 4 (4th Cir.1974) (<HOLDING>); Bailey v. Pilots’ Ass’n for Bay & River Del.,
holding that the cost of lodging on the ship is not includable as wages for sleeping on the vessel was primarily for the benefit and convenience of the employer holding that nothing in the flsa bars an employer from contracting with his employees to pay them the same wages that they received previously holding under indiana law that profits are not wages and neither is a fraction of profits wages and so a bonus that is based on the performance of a plant rather than on the time or determinable output of the employee is not wages either holding that the value of meals and lodging that are tax exempt under  119 is excluded from wages under the lhwca holding that lodging of a stationary engineer could not be deducted from wages because his residing at the complex was primarily for the benefit of the employer