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A former Amazon.com employee in Las Vegas is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit claiming the company's warehouse workers nationwide have been shorted on overtime pay because of the company's practice of rounding time to the quarter hour.  For example, if an employee clocked in seven minutes or less before their scheduled start time, Amazon.com would treat the employee's time as though he/she clocked in at the scheduled start time.  The same would happen if the employee clocked out seven minutes or less after their scheduled end time, it would round it back to the employee's scheduled quitting time.  Consequently, the employees were not properly compensated for their preliminary and postliminary work time and not properly paid for the hours in excess of those permissible by law.   As many as 20,000 employees may be affected by this lawsuit.