The time for which workers at Amazon warehouse are detained by security checks will be judged to be reversed against outside working hours

ByRobert Scoble

An employee working in an Amazon warehouse complained that "overtime payment should be paid because it is working time for a long time to wait for security checks that are imposed when leaving the warehouse," the US Federal Court of Appeals has overtime Amazon had appealed and contested the content because he gave a ruling allowing payment. The trial that was brought up to the Supreme Court closed the curtain with a reverse ruling saying "Security check is not covered by working hours so payment overtime is not necessary."

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Amazon warehouse established around the world is a huge facility built on a large site to manage huge products, it is known that chaos will be set up in the shopping season when the product is overflowing inside.

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Employees who do not have time to take a break in the huge warehouse and are busy picking up products are required to take actions in seconds under the strict adherence of Amazon policy. In addition, a severe penalty is imposed on "late", and it can be confirmed in the following article that the employee will spend time being chased because it leads to the worst fracture.

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Although it is a strict adherence Amazon warehouse site, the severity of security is also famous, a thorough management system is put in place so that the worker does not bring out the product outside the warehouse, and when a worker makes a meal break or go home, the metal detector It is necessary to go through the gate. In this case, it was contested whether the security check time passed through this metal gate corresponds to working hours or not.

The US Federal Court of Appeals says that "security checks may take up to 25 minutes", "the overtime payment should be paid at the time of returning home every day when security checks are detained," the plaintiffs' labor side Respondent Amazon said "Although security checks cost only 90 seconds, they did not wait for turns", but the US Court of Appeals filed in April 2013 "The time to be detained by security check is "Overtime payment should be paid because it is within working hours," he decided to win the workers.

However, in the final struggle at the Supreme Court where the settlement was carried over due to Amazon's appeal, the Supreme Court reversed, "The security check is out of office hours so Amazon is not obliged to pay overtime payment" I did it. The grounds that this working time does not apply is "Because it is necessary for the work to be an" essential element "in order to be able to say working time, security check is not an essential element It is like that.

ByDavid

The judgment over the restraint time at this Amazon warehouse is thought to have a big influence not only on the business in the Amazon warehouse but also the dispute over the working environment in the US, but the "essential It seems that it can be said that the judgment of "element" will be in line with each case. As Amazon workers complain of unfairness, security checks constantly bind workers for a long time and this security check has made employers Amazon an enormous benefit as a result of theft prevention If there is a composition called "essential element" it is considered that there is always the possibility of being considered.