Amazon Security Screening Pay Issue Sent to Oregon Supreme Court

The Ninth Circuit asked Oregon’s top court to decide if Amazon.com and other employers must pay workers for time spent on the premises waiting for and undergoing mandatory security screenings after their shifts end.

At issue is whether Oregon’s wage law incorporates the Fair Labor Standards Act’s Portal-to-Portal Act, and if the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding that it exempts employers from compensating workers for pre-and-post-shift security checks applies to the claims here, the appeals court said.

The Oregon Supreme Court is best suited to resolve this question because “it raises an important, dispositive question of state law,” the U.S. Court ...