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On July 21, 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court resolved an
area of unsettled law and held that, under the Pennsylvania Minimum
Wage Act (PMWA), employers must pay workers for time spent waiting
for and going through mandatory security screenings.
In re
Amazon.com Inc. Fulfillment Ctr. FLSA Litig., No. 43 EAP 2019,
2021 Pa. LEXIS 3047 (2021).
Workers at Amazon s Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, fulfillment
and logistics center filed a collective action seeking unpaid wages
for security-check time under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA) and the PMWA. They alleged that they spent an average of