Amazon’s Security Lines for Workers Divide Top U.S. Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court questioned whether workers at Amazon.com Inc. warehouses must be paid for time spent undergoing post-shift security searches in a case that will shape the power of employers over hourly workers.
Hearing arguments today in Washington, the justices suggested they are divided on the workers’ contention that federal law requires compensation for time spent in security lines. The hour-long session touched on topics as diverse as Amazon’s system for counting toothbrushes and a judge who required law clerks to cut his grapefruit.