Connecticut Top Court Backs Amazon Workers on Screening Wages

Connecticut law requires Amazon.com Inc. and other employers to pay workers for time spent going through security screenings, and there’s no exception for short bits of worker time, the state’s highest court said.

Amazon required the workers to stay on its premises until they completed the screenings, so that time is compensable because it “plainly and unambiguously constitutes ‘hours worked’” under state law, the Connecticut Supreme Court said in an opinion posted online Thursday. And there’s “no support in our statutes, regulations, or case law for the recognition of a de minimis exception” here, the opinion added.

The case is ...