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Labor/Employment

Nov. 29, 2017

Precedential ruling says businesses must pay on-call employees

Attorneys on both sides said the LA County ruling changes the landscape for employers in California who use on-call workers.

Precedential ruling says businesses must pay on-call employees
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In a precedent-setting ruling, a Los Angeles judge has said on-call employees for a California food chain who are told not to come to work are entitled to compensation for their waiting time.

The Monday ruling by Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle is the first in the state to mandate reporting wages to people on call, according to plaintiffs’ attorney Ryan Saba of Rosen Saba LLP. The punitive wage and hour class action was filed agains...

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