March 26, 2024
Workers accusing Amazon of owing them pay pointed to a newly released California Supreme Court decision to support their arguments that a settlement in a case pending in a Kentucky multidistrict litigation shouldn't go forward, according to a Tuesday filing in California federal court.
February 21, 2023
Amazon.com and a staffing company have agreed to pay $7.2 million to settle litigation claiming they should have paid workers for their time spent in security screenings at a number of warehouses in Pennsylvania, a deal that comes after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court weighed in on the issue.
April 30, 2020
Amazon has agreed to pay an $11.1 million settlement to an estimated 200,000 of its warehouse workers to put to rest claims that they should have been paid for time they spent in security lines before and after work, according to a filing in Kentucky federal court Thursday.
September 19, 2018
Amazon warehouse workers in Nevada can pursue state-law class action claims that they weren't properly paid for time spent in security screenings when leaving the job site, but workers in Arizona cannot, the Sixth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
August 30, 2018
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling denying Amazon warehouse workers pay under federal wage law for time spent undergoing security checks blocks such claims under the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act, a Kentucky federal judge ruled Thursday in a decision tossing part of a multidistrict litigation against the e-commerce giant.
June 07, 2017
A Kentucky federal judge tossed a long-running suit alleging that Amazon.com warehouse workers deserved pay for time spent passing through security checks, holding Wednesday that the employees' efforts to revamp the action after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against them didn't save their claims.
April 03, 2017
The Sixth Circuit on Friday refused to revive a Kentucky Wages and Hours Act suit that’s part of multidistrict litigation alleging Amazon's warehouse workers deserve pay for time spent passing through security checks, saying a lower court was right to rule that time spent waiting in line isn’t payable work.
August 05, 2016
Three former Amazon warehouse workers representing tens of thousands of California employees asked a Kentucky federal judge to put the stamp on a $3.7 million settlement with SMX LLC, the staffing agency that employed them, ending claims alleging violations of California wage-and-hour laws.
June 23, 2016
Amazon.com Inc. urged a Kentucky federal court Tuesday to dismiss claims in a multidistrict litigation alleging the company's warehouse workers deserve pay for time spent passing through security checks, saying workers cannot get paid for walking out of work.
May 31, 2016
Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers on Friday urged a Kentucky federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over whether the employees deserve pay for time spent passing through security checks not to toss their case, saying they engaged in compensable work.