FedEx wage suit puts HR security and timeclock policies under fire
FedEx faces a Minnesota lawsuit alleging unpaid wages for warehouse workers’ security screenings and daily walks to timeclocks.
In a case filed December 10, 2025, in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota, package handler Patrick Ingles alleges that Federal Express Corporation and FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. failed to pay hourly, non-exempt warehouse employees in Minnesota for certain pre- and post-shift time.
Ingles, who lives in Monticello, Wright County, Minnesota, says he has worked for the defendants since February 2022 as an hourly, non-exempt Package Handler. He brings the case individually and on behalf of other similarly situated workers, seeking to represent a class of hourly, non-exempt employees at FedEx warehouses across the state.
According to the filing, the defendants own and operate approximately eleven large warehouses in Minnesota, including locations in Bemidji, Mankato, Minneapolis, Rogers, Rosemount, Stewartville, Saint Cloud, Saint Paul, Shakopee, and Willmar. The allegations focus on what happens immediately before workers clock in and immediately after they clock out.
The lawsuit states that at the beginning of each shift, employees must enter the premises through a single employee entrance, either an external guard shack or the main warehouse entrance. From there, they are required to walk to a security checkpoint and undergo a mandatory inbound security...
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