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If they paid employees for the time spent waiting on security screenings, how would they determine when it would be OK to start lining up? Would they work their entire shift and have the time in line be all overtime? Would they knock off early and estimate how long it would take to get everyone through before OT would apply? Or some of both: line up early, pay OT when things run long? Either way, I don't see how you'd avoid the fight to be last in line, the loitering in the bathroom, the search for lost keys by those looking to suppliment their income by taking more time to get through the screening than the time they were complaining about having to wait in the first place.
"Oh noes!! Someone pulled the fire alarm during the security screening. I'm going to get cheated out of 15 minutes of dawdle-pay today!"
And if screening wait time were a flat time/rate, the first ones through would be paid the same as the ones who were last in line and waited longer. Where's the fairness in that?
It'd be a nightmare every day just getting people to line up to GET the screening started.
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