Boeing Workers Won’T Get Full Pay For Extra Sessions

Fri., Jan. 28, 2000

From Staff

Boeing Co. workers who were required to attend “pre-employment” orientation sessions are only entitled to compensation at the minimum wage, not the salaries set in their contracts, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The unanimous decision stemmed from a 1992 Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association complaint filed with the Washington Department of Labor and Industries over unpaid time between December 1989 and April 1996.

Justice Phil Talmadge, writing for the majority, said state law directs an employer to pay workers no less than the minimum wage. The law does not guarantee that employees be paid regular wages, he said.

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