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(Bloomberg) The U.S. Supreme Court docket turned away an attraction by Amazon.com Inc., letting hourly employees at its Nevada warehouses press claims for compensation for the time they spent in required safety searches after their shifts.
The attraction was a follow-up to the 2014 Supreme Court docket ruling that unanimously stated workers at Amazon warehouses don’t have a proper underneath federal regulation to be paid for these screenings.
A federal appeals court docket stated that the choice didn’t preclude the employees from pursuing related claims underneath Nevada state regulation. In its attraction, Amazon stated the choice may create a “road-map” for courts deciphering wage-and-hour statutes in different states.
The ruling, issued by the Cincinnati-based sixth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals, centered on the which means of the phrase “work” in Nevada’s wage-and-hour regulation. The panel dominated 2-1 that Nevada had included the broad federal definition of that phrase into the state measure.
On the identical time, the appeals court docket stated the state didn’t undertake the federal exceptions that allow employers require some unpaid pre- and post-work actions.
In a separate a part of the opinion, the appeals court docket rejected claims pressed by workers in Arizona underneath that state’s legal guidelines.
The searches are designed to protect towards theft by workers. The employees stated of their 2010 lawsuit that they usually spent 25 minutes after their shifts ready to move via steel detectors. Amazon disputed that characterization.
Amazon has warehouses in North Las Vegas and Reno and is planning one other in Henderson. The Nevada employees are additionally suing Amazon’s staffing firm, Integrity Staffing Options Inc. The go well with seeks class-action standing.
The case is Integrity Staffing Options v. Busk, 18-1154.
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