The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to wade into the debate over whether online retail giant Amazon should have to pay its workers as they go through security screenings.

The high court on Dec. 27 agreed to hear arguments in In re Amazon on the first-impression issues of whether “time spent on an employer’s premises waiting to undergo and undergoing mandatory security screenings [is] compensable as ‘hours worked’ within the meaning of the Pennsylvania Minimums Wage Act,” and whether the doctrine of de minimis non curat lex can bar claims brought under the act.

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