Labor/Employment
Jan. 5, 2024
State high court again considers if security checks count as work
The issue is whether an employee’s time spent in a personal car, waiting for security guards to scan an identification card, should count as “hours worked.”
Nearly four years after the state Supreme Court ruled that employees must be paid for time spent for required searches of bags at Apple stores, justices considered Thursday how far to extend that rule in a new case.
The dispute is a certified question from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and justices asked a host of hypothetical questions to try to craft a rule that makes sense in all situations, not just an employee’s class action ...
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