Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk (574 U.S. 27)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided December 9, 2014 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 574 U.S. 27 · 135 S. Ct. 513
- Decided
- December 9, 2014
- Term
- October Term 2014
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Thomas
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Reversed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Justice THOMASdelivered the opinion of the Court. The employer in this case required its employees, warehouse workers who retrieved inventory and packaged it for shipment, to undergo an antitheft security screening before leaving the warehouse each day. The question presented is whether the employees' time spent waiting to undergo and undergoing those security screenings is compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.,as amended by the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947, § 251 et seq.We hold that the time is not compensable. We therefore reverse the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. I Petitioner Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., provides warehouse staffing to Amazon.com throughout the United States. Respondents Jesse Busk and Laurie Castro worked as hourly employees of Integrity Staffing at warehouses in Las Vegas and Fenley, Nevada, respectively. As warehouse employees, they retrieved products from the shelves and packaged those products for delivery to Amazon customers. Integrity Staffing required its employees to undergo a security screening before leaving the warehouse at the end of each day. During this screening, employees removed items such as wallets, keys, and belts from their persons and passed through metal detectors. In 2010, Busk and Castro filed a putative class action against Integrity…
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