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After a 10-year battle, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Amazon warehouse workers must be paid for time spent in mandatory security checks after each shift. The court ruled, in a majority opinion, that the state’s wage law overruled the federal law that the US Supreme Court used to decide on a similar case in 2014. Over 42,000 workers will split $8.67 million of Amazon’s $13.5 million settlement, with the highest payout of a single employee being $5,760 thus far. Amazon argues that “employees are only paid for their labor…not to stand at a security checkpoint.”