Case: Wage & Hour/State Laws (Ill.)

The Supreme Court of Illinois answered in the negative a certified question from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling that Illinois’s Minimum Wage Law does not incorporate the federal Portal-to-Portal Act’s exclusion from compensation for preliminary or postliminary activities, which means Amazon.com Services, LLC warehouse workers may be entitled to overtime compensation for time spent in mandatory pre-shift Covid-19 screenings, based on the plain language of the statute and Illinois Department of Labor regulations defining “hours worked” to include all time an employee is required to be on the employer’s premises.

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