United States: Supreme Court Finds That Post-Shift Employee Security Screenings Noncompensable Activity Under The Fair Labor Standards Act

Last week, in Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, the United States Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous opinion holding that post-shift employee security screenings were noncompensable activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act because those screenings were neither the principal activity the employees were hired to perform nor integral or indispensable to the principal activity they were hired to perform.
Background
Integrity Staffing Solutions provides warehouse staffing to Amazon.com throughout the United States.  Jesse Busk […]

By | December 17th, 2014 ||

United States: Unanimous Supreme Court Finds Security Screening Time NOT Compensable

Security screening has become more common over the past decade, both to promote security for some employers and to deter employee theft for others. A growing issue in wage and hour law, at least until this morning, was whether the time spent in that screening was compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, Case No. 13-433 (U.S. S. Ct. December 9, 2014), a unanimous United States Supreme […]

By | December 17th, 2014 ||

Ireland: Monitoring Employees in the Workplace – The Christmas Edition

In a recent decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal (“EAT”)1, an employee was dismissed after getting into an altercation with another member of staff at an office Christmas party.  On review of the CCTV footage by the employer, the employee was dismissed for gross misconduct.  The employee ultimately succeeded in a claim for unfair dismissal on the basis, however, that the disciplinary procedure followed by the employer was flawed. Notwithstanding that the employee was found […]

By | December 16th, 2014 ||