California High Court Clarifies Workers Must Be Paid for Exits

California workers must be paid for time they spend waiting in their car at security inspections to exit their employer’s premises, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu wrote that California worker George Huerta must be paid for time he spent waiting for a security check of his car to leave the grounds of his solar power facility construction site, reasoning that this time doesn’t count as a commute because Huerta was confined to the worksite.

The ruling clarifies a longtime ambiguity over when a worker’s pay ends during a shift and will have “have significant ...