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Does No Good Deed Go Unpunished? The restaurant chain Taco Bell offered discounted meals to employees during their required 30-minute meal breaks with one requirement. In an effort to prevent theft, the restaurant chain required that the meal be eaten in the restaurant.
In a class action suit, employees claimed that the eat-in-the-restaurant requirement rendered the time compensable. Did the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agree?
It’s no surprise that the 2018 Legislative session concluded with a variety of measures addressing the hottest topic of the year: sexual harassment in the workplace. ...
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Walmart, Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million to end a class action suit with cashiers who claimed that the company violated a California wage order requiring businesses to give ...
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You know the saying: no good deed goes unpunished. Nowhere is that more apparent than in California where legal interpretations continue to make it more ...
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