A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel has upheld a lower court ruling in favor of employer WinCo Foods, LLC. A class action litigation brought by employee Alfred Johnson on behalf of himself and other WinCo employees (plaintiffs) in California, alleged WinCo failed to compensate successful applicants for employment, as employees, for the time and expense of taking pre-employment drug tests (Johnson v. WinCo Foods (June 2022)).
