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Amazon, workers squabble over unpaid screenings

After clocking out, Amazon workers endure an airport-style screening process, including metal detectors, to make sure they arent stealing from the Web retailer. Getting through the line often took as long as 25 minutes, uncompensated.

By Spencer Soper, Sophia Pearson, Greg Stohr | Updated on October 08, 2014
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Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — Jesse Busk spent a 12-hour shift rushing inventory through an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Nevada to meet quotas. His day wasn’t over, though.

After clocking out, Busk and hundreds of other workers went through an airport-style screening process, including metal detectors, to make sure they weren’t stealing from the Web retailer. Getting through the line often took as long as 25 minutes, uncompensated, he and others employed there say.

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