Apple scored a decisive wage-and-hour victory when a California district court recently tossed a class action in which the plaintiff employees sought compensation for time spent undergoing exit bag searches to ensure they were not stealing Apple products from work. In Amanda Frlekin, et al. v. Apple Inc., the court determined that employee time
Better Warn Santa’s Elves—US Supreme Court Rules that Amazon Does Not Have to Pay Workers to Stand in Security Line at the End of the Day
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that Amazon does not have to pay its temporary warehouse workers for the time that they spend waiting in line to go through security checks as they leave the facilities. The workers’ class-action lawsuit claimed that they had to undergo end of shift screenings to prevent theft and