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Class certification for a meal and rest period lawsuit was denied; a federal District Court found that nothing in California law required the employer to ensure employees took their meal breaks, employers must only supply or make such time available to employees.
Workers’ compensation temporary disability benefits for multiple independent injuries are limited to 104 total weeks in a two-year period. Where independent injuries result in concurrent periods of disability, the 104/two-year limitation runs concurrently as well.
An employer can still claim that an employee did not suffer from a serious health condition, even if it did not use the California Family Rights Act's (CFRA) dispute resolution mechanism of having a health care provider, jointly chosen by both parties, verify the employee's entitlement to leave.
On-call resident employees, such as resident managers under Wage Order 5, need only be paid for time performing their assigned job duties. Employers are not required to pay them for the time they are on call, so long as they are free to engage in personal activities, regardless of any geographic restrictions imposed by the employer on such activities.