Amazon Gets Boost With Maryland High Court De Minimis Ruling (1)

Amazon.com Services LLC’s wage law interpretation won out at Maryland’s highest court, where a majority said a doctrine allowing employers to avoid compensating workers for small amounts of time applied to the state’s pay laws.

A warehouse worker who says Amazon stiffed her on pay for time spent undergoing security screenings secured class status for her lawsuit, but the federal judge overseeing her case asked the Maryland Supreme Court to weigh in on whether the de minimis doctrine applied to the state’s wage laws. When Maryland’s legislature enacted those statutes, “it intended a de minimis rule to apply,” the high ...