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Cite as:  574 U. S. ____ (2014) 

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Opinion of the Court 

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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No. 13–433 
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INTEGRITY STAFFING SOLUTIONS, INC., 

PETITIONER v. JESSE BUSK ET AL. 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 

APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
 

[December 9, 2014]

 JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court. 
The employer in this case required its employees, ware-
house  workers  who  retrieved  inventory  and  packaged  it 
for  shipment,  to  undergo  an  antitheft  security  screen-
ing before leaving the warehouse each day.  The question
presented is whether the employees’ time spent waiting to 
undergo  and  undergoing  those  security  screenings  is 
compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
(FLSA), 29 U. S. C. §201 et seq., as amended by the Portal-
to-Portal Act of 1947, §251 et seq.  We hold that the time is 
not  compensable.  We  therefore  reverse  the  judgment  of
the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

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Petitioner  Integrity  Staffing  Solutions,  Inc.,  provides 
warehouse staffing to Amazon.com throughout the United
States.  Respondents  Jesse  Busk  and  Laurie  Castro
worked as hourly employees of Integrity Staffing at ware-
houses in Las Vegas and Fenley, Nevada, respectively.  As 
warehouse  employees,  they  retrieved  products  from  the
shelves and packaged those products for delivery to Ama-
zon customers.