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Labor/Employment

May 24, 2017

McDonald's in the frying pan for overtime policy

A novel bench trial started Tuesday with sharply conflicting opinions about McDonald's Restaurants of California Inc.'s corporate ethos, but it will likely take a turn into spreadsheets, painstaking explanations of calculations, and parsing of the state labor code.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — A novel bench trial started Tuesday with sharply conflicting opinions about McDonald's Restaurants of California Inc.'s corporate ethos, but it will likely take a turn into spreadsheets, painstaking explanations of calculations, and parsing of the state labor code.

Joseph M. Sellers, plaintiffs' lawyer for a class of thousands of California McDonald's overnight shift worker...

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