The U.S. Supreme Court finds that employee time spent waiting to undergo an employer's antitheft security screening - estimated to be as long as 25 min. after the completed workshift - does not constitute compensable time. Integrity Staffing Solutions required its warehouse employees, who retrieved products from warehouse shelves and packaged them for delivery to Amazon.com customers, to be screened before exiting the warehouse. The employees sued for a class action seeking 25 min. of pay per day under the Federal Fair Labor Standards (Wage and Hour) Act (FLSA), a 1938 law. This law does not define "work" or "work week," other than to include "all time during which the employee is necessarily required to be on the employer's premises, on duty or at a prescribed workplace." As a result, a Tennessee coal-mining case in 1944 and a pottery company case in 1946 upheld employer wage liability for required time spent travelling between mine portals and underground work, and then for time spent walking from time clocks to work benches.
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