Wage and Hour, Rest and Meal Break, Evidence

California Appellate Court Affirms Employer’s Decertification of Meal and Rest Period Class Action

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/2/2025

The California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, recently affirmed a trial court ruling decertifying a wage-and-hour class action alleging a hospital failed to comply with protections for meal and rest periods for...more

Recent California Supreme Court Case Offers Meal Period Guidance

Fisher Phillips on 4/1/2021

The California Supreme Court recently ruled that acknowledgments may be evidence used by employers to refute meal period claims, but employers cannot obtain acknowledgments using “rounded” time punches when confronting...more

Employment News: protected conversations, working time, investigations

Hogan Lovells on 10/7/2019

It's no secret – protected conversation potentially admissible - The EAT decided in Harrison v Aryman Ltd that a claimant could potentially rely on a protected conversation in evidence. This was the case even though she...more

Key California Employment Law Cases: January 2019

Payne & Fears on 2/26/2019

This month’s key California employment law cases involve wage and hour issues. Donohue v. AMN Servs., 29 Cal. App. 5th 1068, 241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 111 (2018) - Summary: Policy rounding employees’ time worked is legal if...more

Battle of the Experts on Class Certification: A Win for Employers

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/10/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Court of Appeal affirmed a denial of class certification on the ground that the plaintiff’s expert report failed to establish claims could be determined on common evidence. The ruling...more

Post Summer Part 5 of 5 - Continuing the Discovery

Cozen O'Connor on 9/20/2013

Last week began this series of five posts to highlight five developments from this past summer in the area of social media and employment law. In the final Part 5 today: The discoverability of private social media posts in...more