The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the time workers spend going through a security checkpoint after the completion of work duties is compensable time.

The ruling reverses a district court's decision that found the claim without merit, according to law firm Baker & McKenzie. The lawsuit stems from a group of employees working for a staffing agency had filed, arguing that the time they spent going through a theft prevention check at the end of the workday qualified under the Fair Labor Standards Act as payable time. Such employee time was the major issue at stake in the suit.

A similar case against a major computer retailer who required employees to wait without being paid for security checks of personal property alleged that such checks took a significant amount of time out of a worker's day - between 50 and 90 minutes - lawyer Michael D. Thompson of firm Epstein Becker Green reported. The article points out that another similar suit, this time against a clothier, ended in a $4 million judgment for employees.

Employers can use exacting employee management software to make sure every payable minute of worker time is accounted for.

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