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A second duty-free meal period is required after 10 hours of work, but may be waived if the employee has taken the first meal period and works no more than 12 hours that day.
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See Labor Code §226.7.
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Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, 20 Cal. 4th 1094 (2007).
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Cal. Business & Professions Code §17200 et seq. See Cortez v. Purolator Air Filtration Products Co., 23 Cal.4th 163, 179 (2000).
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The settlement followed an Alameda County jury verdict in 2006 for 116,000 Wal-Mart workers in California for missed meal breaks, totaling $58 million in premium pay and $114 million in punitive damages.
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On-Line Power v. Mazur, 149 Cal.App.4th 1079 (2007).
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As of 2006, no fewer than 50 wage and hour class action cases were pending in Orange County Superior Court, most of them brought on behalf of employees who were allegedly misclassified as exempt under the executive exemption.
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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) 2006—26.
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FLSA 2007—5, dated February 1, 2007.
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See, for example, Wage Order 5—2001, §1(B)(3)(b), Cal. Code Regs. §11050.1(B)(3)(b).
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Cal. Code Regs. §11050.1(B)(3)(i) and (ii).
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FLSA 2006—35.
13.
Baldwin v. Trailer Inns, Inc., 266 F.3d 1104, 1117 (9th Cir. 2001).
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FLSA 2007—3
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See Bothell v. Phase Metrics, Inc., 299 F.3d 1120, 1126 (9th Cir. 2002). In that fiscal year, claims for overtime pay based on misclassification of the administrative exemption were made in 353 cases resulting in wage payments to 2,800 employees. See U.S. DOL website www.dol.gov/esa/whd/statistics
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FLSA 2006—45, December 21, 2006.
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FLSA 2006—30, dated September 8, 2006.
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FLSA 2006—31.
19.
See In Re Farmers Insurance Exchange, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 26671 (9th Cir. 2006).
20.
See Oedrenger v. First Residential Mortgage Network d/b/a Surepoint Lending, 2007 WL 734859 (W.D. Ky. 2007).
21.
Pontius v. Delta Financial Corp. d/b/a Fidelity Mortgage Inc., 2007 WL 1412034 (W.D. Pa. 2007).
22.
Saunders v. Ace Mortgage Funding Inc., 2007 WL 2008677 (D. Minn. 2007).
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FLSA 2006—43.
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FLSA 2006—20NA.
25.
Turner v. Human Genome Sciences., Inc., 292 F. Supp. 2d 738 (D. Md. 2003).
26.
FLSA 2007—4.
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FLSA 2007—1 and 2007—2, January 25, 2007.
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FLSA 2006—33.
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See Title 8 Cal. Code Regs. §§11040.3(D) and 11070.3(D).
30.
127 S.Ct. 2339.
31.
No. S141502.
32.
Discover Bank v. Superior Court, 36 Cal.4th 145 (2005).
33.
No. S128576
34.
Ralph's Grocery Co. v. Superior Court, 112 Cal.App.4th 1090 (2003).
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No. S139555.