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Analysis of new laws and key decisions in California wrongful-termination and employment law.
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Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating: Prospective, Revocable Meal-Period Waivers Are Valid
Two veterinary workers signed a standing written waiver of their meal break for shifts of six hours or less — revocable at any time…
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Ward v. Tilly’s: Reporting-Time Pay for On-Call / Call-In Shifts
Tilly’s required retail workers to phone the store exactly two hours before every on-call shift — under threat of written discipline — and paid…
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Camp v. Home Depot: Is Neutral Time-Rounding Still Lawful When Actual Time Is Captured? (pending review)
Home Depot’s Kronos system recorded Delmer Camp’s time to the minute — then quarter-hour rounding paid him for 470 fewer minutes than his own…
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Stone v. Alameda Health System: Public-Entity Employers Are Not Subject to PAGA (or Most Labor Code Wage Rules)
Two Highland Hospital workers sued the public hospital authority running Alameda County’s medical facilities for meal-and-rest violations, unpaid wages, and PAGA penalties. A unanimous…
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Huerta v. CSI Electrical Contractors: “Hours Worked” at the Security Gate, the Commute, and On-Premises Meal Periods
A solar-project electrician queued unpaid at a security gate while guards inspected vehicles, drove miles of access road under strict site rules, and ate…
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Iloff v. LaPaille: The Good-Faith Defense to Liquidated Damages
An employer must prove a reasonable, good-faith attempt to comply before escaping liquidated damages under Labor Code section 1194.2.
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Cortina v. North American Title Company
After 19 years of litigation, a bifurcated bench trial produced a $43 million judgment for ~400 escrow workers who claimed they were misclassified as…
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Ehrenkranz v. San Francisco Zen Center
A former Work Practice Apprentice at the San Francisco Zen Center won a wage award, but the trial court held the First Amendment’s ministerial…
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Vela v. Harbor Rail Services of California, Inc.
A railcar repairman who inspected and repaired freight cars taken out of service in a rail yard brought a wage-and-hour class action and argued…
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Doss v. Tesla, Inc.
A Tesla yard hostler who moved 53-foot trailers of out-of-state auto parts around the Fremont factory — never crossing a state line — sued…