Amazon's staffing agency partners could be ordered to pay up to 400,000 workers back pay if the claim is successful.
An Amazon employee's battle to be paid for time spent waiting in a security line after his shift had finished has gone before the US Supreme Court. Jesse Busk, 37, said he and hundreds of other workers at a Nevada warehouse had to go through airport-style screening process at the end of a shift - including metal detectors - to make sure no goods had been stolen. But he said the process often took nearly half an hour, time for which he and others were not paid.He told Bloomberg: "They did it on my time. If people are stuck in your building and they’re not allowed to leave, why don’t you go ahead and pay them?".....Read more here