Amazon Warehouse Workers’ Covid-Test Pay Suit Revived on Appeal

A Seventh Circuit panel revived a lawsuit against Amazon from former warehouse workers seeking pay for time spent undergoing pre-shift Covid-19 screenings.

Tuesday’s decision comes after the Illinois Supreme Court, answering the appellate panel’s certified question, found that state wage-and-hour law doesn’t incorporate the federal provisions that exclude certain preliminary and “postliminary” activities from paid time.

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of the workers’ suit and remanded the matter back to the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The decision by Judge Nancy Maldonado also declined Amazon’s request ...