Supreme Court Decides Amazon Workers Don’t Need to Be Paid While Waiting for Mandatory Security Screenings On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed a big win to Amazon and companies like it. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that businesses should not be required to pay workers at warehouses for the time they wait to go through mandatory security screenings at the end of the day. Workers might wait in line for five minutes to go through a routine anti-theft screening or they might wait 25 minutes; regardless, the employer does not need to compensate them for that time
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:58:55 +0000