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Labor/Employment

Dec. 7, 2017

Internet technicians can’t get paid for commute home, judge rules

“What is work?” a judge asked at an oral argument Wednesday, and later answered his own question, ruling that Cox Communications Inc. field technicians aren’t working when they take their service vans home at day’s end.

Internet technicians can’t get paid for commute home, judge rules
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SANTA ANA — “What is work?” a judge asked at an oral argument Wednesday, and later answered his own question, ruling that Cox Communications Inc. field technicians aren’t working when they take their service vans home at day’s end.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney issued a 15-page ruling right after the hearing, granting the company’s summary judgment motion and rejecting a similar motion from a certified class of California fie...

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