{"id":33444,"date":"2026-03-20T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=33444"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:05:07","slug":"companies-could-be-on-the-hook-for-work-related-activities-before-and-after-shifts-start-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/33444-companies-could-be-on-the-hook-for-work-related-activities-before-and-after-shifts-start-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies Could Be on the Hook for Work-Related Activities Before and After Shifts Start, Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Illinois Supreme Court ruled state wage law does not include certain federal exclusions\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois\u2019 wage law does not include federal exclusions that would shield companies from having to pay employees for pre-and post-shift activities, the state high court ruled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ruling is based on a civil suit brought against Amazon by two former employees after they were not compensated for pre-shift health screenings during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon argued the court should follow federal regulations, but the employees said they were entitled to compensation because state law does not include those regulations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case will now return to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By JENNA SCHWEIKERT<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:jschweikert@capitolnewsillinois.com\u00a0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jschweikert@capitolnewsillinois.com\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 Illinois law does not specifically shield companies from having to pay employees for time spent completing required pre- and post-work activities, the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although federal regulations exclude that requirement, the court found Illinois\u2019 wage law does not include any similar provisions. That means employers could be required to compensate employees for required activities outside of the normal work day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit asked the state\u2019s high court to decide if state law includes the federal regulation found in the Fair Labor Standards Act. The question originates from a civil suit brought against Amazon by two former employees, although the court\u2019s ruling is not an official ruling in that case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the opinion, Justice David Overstreet wrote that the court\u2019s goal was to determine the legislature\u2019s intent at the time Illinois\u2019 1971 Minimum Wage law was enacted, emphasizing that the court aimed to adhere to the plain language of the law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe must refrain from departing from the statute\u2019s plain language by reading into it exceptions, limitations, or conditions that conflict with the express language of the statute,\u201d Overstreet wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice Overstreet delivered the court\u2019s opinion, with Chief Justice P. Scott Neville and Justices Lisa Holder White, Joy Cunningham, Elizabeth Rochford, and Mary O\u2019Brien concurring. Justice Sanjay Tailor did not take part in the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Johnson v. Amazon<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2020, Amazon required its employees to complete 10-15-minute pre-shift health screenings to avoid transmission of COVID-19. Two employees, Lisa Johnson and Gale Miller Anderson, later sued the company in the Cook County circuit court, arguing they should have been compensated for that time under federal and state law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon requested the case be moved to federal court in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and moved to dismiss the case, arguing they were not required to pay Johnson and Anderson based on federal exemptions for preliminary work activities in the Fair Labor Standards Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The federal court approved the dismissal under federal and state statutes, finding that federal law had frequently been used to interpret Illinois\u2019 Minimum Wage Law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johnson and Anderson appealed, this time arguing they were entitled to compensation only under state law, which does not include those federal exemptions. Amazon, in reply, said federal law supported the district court\u2019s conclusion that the exclusions apply to state law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Seventh Circuit asked the Illinois Supreme Court to settle the question, who then found that Amazon could not rely on federal regulations to inform Illinois\u2019 minimum wage law because the General Assembly chose not to include the specific exclusions on preliminary activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A plain reading of the law \u201creveals that the General Assembly did not signify any intention to incorporate the preliminary and postliminary activities exclusions,\u201d Overstreet wrote, referencing a subsection of the wage law that includes a list of exceptions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNotably, four of these exceptions incorporate by reference specific provisions of the FLSA, regulations of the United States Department of Labor (USDOL), or both,\u201d Overstreet wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe General Assembly delegated the authority to define \u2018hours worked\u2019 to IDOL (the Illinois Department of Labor). In turn IDOL adopted a definition of \u2018hours worked\u2019 that necessarily includes preliminary and postliminary activities, explicitly encompassing all time that an employee is required to be on an employer\u2019s premises.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case will now return to the Seventh Circuit court. Pending that decision, or any action by the legislature, Illinois employers may soon have to compensate employees for that extra time spent preparing for a shift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. 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