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Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Light at the End of the Tunnel: Five NLRB Changes Employers Can Anticipate in 2025 and Beyond!

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I have come to know and believe the adage that: the only thing constant is change. In less than 30 days, we will bid farewell to 2024. As we usher in 2025 with great expectations, we know that change is on the horizon. And in...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

NLRB Aside, Bans on Captive Audience Meetings Spread Across the States

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made waves with its November 13, 2024 decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024) overturning Babcock & Wilcox Co. and 75 years of precedent that had allowed...more

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NLRB Delivers Another Sucker Punch to Employers by Outlawing Mandatory Captive Audience Meeting

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Going against decades of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”), in Amazon.com, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024), held that employers violate federal labor law when they require employee attendance at meetings...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Time Spent In Mandatory Security Screening at the End of a Workday Is Not Compensable

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The United States Supreme Court issued an interesting decision last month on whether employees who are required to undergo security screening after their work was done should be paid for that time. The Supreme Court found in...more

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Time Spent By Warehouse Workers In Security Screening Is Not Compensable Under Fair Labor Standards Act

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The employer in this case, Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., provides staffing to Amazon.com throughout the United States. Plaintiffs Jesse Busk and Laurie Castro worked as hourly employees retrieving and packaging products...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Time Spent in Employer-Mandated Security Checks Held Non-Compensable: U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Integrity Staffing Solutions,...

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In a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, a unanimous court held that time spent by employees in mandatory security checks after work is not compensable, unless the screenings are "integral and indispensable" to the principal...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Waiting for and Undergoing Security Checks Not Compensable Time

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The United States Supreme Court recently held in Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk et al. that time spent waiting for and undergoing post-shift security checks is not compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

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Did You Know…Security Time Is Not Compensable Time

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In Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, the United States Supreme Court addressed whether an employee is “working” when undergoing a security screening because he or she is required to do so by the employer. In a...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Argument On Compensability Of Time Spent By Employees Undergoing Post-Shift Security Checks

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In Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument recently in a class action case regarding whether employees assigned by their employer to work at an Amazon warehouse must be...more

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U.S. Supreme Court: Antitheft Security Screening Not Part of the Job for FLSA Compensation Purposes

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Employers across the country are breathing a sigh of relief following the December 9, 2014 unanimous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that time spent by warehouse workers waiting for and undergoing antitheft security...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

4 Key Lessons from Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk

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While helpful to some employers, Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk does not fundamentally change the law of compensable working time. On December 9, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision...more

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Are Postliminary Activities No Longer Compensable after the Supreme Court's Decision this Week?

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In a unanimous decision on December 9, 2014, the United States Supreme Court held that the time employees spent waiting to undergo and undergoing security screenings post-shift (approximately 25 minutes each day) is not...more

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