Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Ass'n v. Boeing Co.

This class action challenged the Boeing Company’s long-standing practice of requiring newly hired employees to attend an unpaid orientation prior to reporting for their first day of work. The plaintiffs asserted that the orientation, itself, was work and that Boeing was required to remunerate the employees at their contract rate for the time they spent at the orientation. After reviewing extensive written materials, the trial court ruled on both parties’ motions for partial summary judgment, and both parties now appeal. Included in the trial court’s order were rulings that: (1) attendance at…