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Court: Screening Workers Going Home Doesn’t Count as Work Time
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By John E. Thompson
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday found that the time non-exempt employees spent in connection with an end-of-workday security screening before leaving the premises did not count as worktime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Instead, it said, the time so spent was non-compensable “postliminary” activity under the federal Portal-to-Portal Act.
Among other things, the Supreme Court said that:
Interestingly, the U.S. Department of Labor had argued in favor of the position the Supreme Court ultimately adopted.
For a full summary of today’s ruling, read our Labor Alert.
This was originally published on Fisher & Phillips’ Wage and Hour Laws blog.