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California Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment

Aug. 29, 2023

Timekeeper rounding practices may be running out of time

In reviewing cases dealing with rounding time policies, appellate courts up until recently stood behind the ruling in See's Candy, opining that a rounding policy is lawful if it is facially neutral and applied "in such a manner that it will not result, over a period of time, in failure to compensate the employees properly for all the time they have actually worked." That may change.

Lonnie D. Giamela

Fisher & Phillips LLP

Phone: (213) 330-4454

Email: lgiamela@fisherphillips.com

Georgetown Univ Law Ctr; Washington DC

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Following its decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc., the employment law spotlight on the California Supreme Court has now shifted to Camp v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. wherein the high court will review whether, under California law, employers are permitted to use neutral time-rounding practices to calculate employees' work time for payroll purposes.

The argument over whether neut...

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