Employer Asks High Court To Review Compensability Of Security Screenings

Mealey's (March 19, 2019, 4:09 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A company that provides warehouse labor services and Amazon.com Inc. filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court on March 1 seeking a ruling on whether the Portal-to-Portal Act modified the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) definition of work and whether the “minimal effort” involved with going through a security screening meets that definition of work (Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., et al. v. Jesse Busk, et al., No. 18-1154, U.S. Sup.)....