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Amazon Warehouse Workers Required to Wait in Line to Leave Work Demand to Be Paid for Their Time

Amazon warehouse workers have to spend a lot of time standing in security lines to get out of their workplace. Management has decided that its own workers are such a security threat that they must be painstakingly screened before they can be allowed to leave. Amazon workers are okay with these screenings, but they want to be paid for their time. The company that imposes the screening claims that it shouldn’t have to pay because being cleared to leave the facility is not directly related to the workers’ job! Sidney-winner Josh Eidelson reports on the upcoming Supreme Court case that will decide this issue.