California Justices Asked About Worker Car Waits, Meal Times

The Ninth Circuit asked the California Supreme Court whether time workers spend in their own cars on company property waiting to go through security and driving to employee parking lots counts as “hours worked” under the state’s wage law.

George Huerta, a construction worker at a solar power facility in Monterey County, alleges that CSI Electrical Contractors Inc. should have paid him for time spent traversing security gates and parking facilities at the job site. The questions his class action poses have “significant public policy implications for California workers and employers,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...