Reuters:

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday said Apple Inc must pay more than 12,000 retail workers in California for time they spent going through security screenings at the end of their shifts.

A unanimous three-judge panel reversed a judge who had tossed the case and ordered him to enter summary judgment for the plaintiffs, after the California Supreme Court in response to certified questions in the case said in February that time spent undergoing security checks is compensable under state law.

I’ve always felt that retail workers who had to wait in line to be able to leave their job (to be screened for theft, for example) should be paid for the time they wait in line. This the end of the road for this case?