July 12, 2024
The Ninth Circuit revived and sent back to lower court a suit seeking pay from a call center for minutes that workers spent booting up their computers before their shifts, ruling it is still disputed whether the preshift work was too brief and administratively difficult to track.
November 22, 2023
An appellate opinion may breathe new life into a case that a lower court dismissed, or throw out a decision with instructions to conduct a fresh analysis that adopts a new legal test. Here, Law360 reviews what happened in five minimum wage and overtime cases where an appellate ruling changed the course of the litigation.
June 06, 2023
Call center workers bringing wage and hour claims for off-the-clock work often face employers' arguments that the time was de minimis, or too insignificant to be compensable, but workers' attorneys see federal circuit court rulings and other factors as potentially changing that. Here, Law360 explores the de minimis issue.
May 23, 2023
The time call center workers spend turning on and off their computers is too insignificant to be compensable, a Nevada federal judge ruled, handing the call center company a win after the suit took a trip to the Ninth Circuit.
October 24, 2022
The time a group of call center workers spent booting up their computers is intertwined with their work and therefore compensable under federal law, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, overturning a win a district court handed to their employer.