Judicial Rules

An article based on the Supreme Courts more recent hearing has struck particular attention to the 13 class-action lawsuit and about 400,000 plaintiffs against Amazon. The court ruled Tuesday on whether workers should be compensated for the lengthy security measure prior to leaving an Amazon Warehouse. Where workers jobs are to "retrieve products from warehouse shelves and package them for delivery" The court ruled the security measure were not apart of their job and therefore they will not be paid as if it were. The court considered this was not "integral and indispensable" to their jobs. 

The Supreme Court interpreted the law in 1956 in Steiner v. Mitchell to require pay only for tasks that are an “integral and indispensable part of the principal activities for which covered workmen are employed.”

There is no reason for workers to be paid for what they do before and after their productive work time. They are not putting for effort contributing to the job by taking off their belt. It should be said that it should not have to be such a burden and lengthy time however it should be incorporated in as part of the day. There must obviously be some way to make security check move smoother and faster, which Amazon reports to have contrary to the article. There is a solution here and for the Supreme Court to hear and address such an arbitrary issue is lacking in progress of the Judicial system in our nation's government. 

-http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-rules-against-worker-pay-for-security-screenings.html?ref=politics&_r=0