9th Circuit Rules Apple Owes Retail Workers for Time Spent Security Screening
As a teenager, I worked running boardwalk games for a very well known theme park. I don't want to say the name, but let's just say it was one with many flags.Every day the workflow was as follows:  1. Sign-in in the employee entrance office.
  2. Get your cash bag from costumes.
  3. Pick up $200 worth of singles from the cash office for making change which both you and the teller would count out.
  4. Go through a security check.
  5. Walkthrough the park from the employee entrance to where your game was (often the other side of the park).

The whole thing took 20 minutes and we would signed-in to start being paid at the next 15 minute interval from when we arrived at our game.When we checked out, we did the whole process in reverse but would be signed-out for the previous 15 minute interval when we left our game area.All in all, we were losing 40-68 minutes of wages per day. Worse if there were long lines in the office or costumes or the cash office.Of course, we were also only paid $6.15 an hour and had to pay union dues out of that, so in total, it didn't add up to much...