Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (C.D. Cal.)

Zones Inc. is entitled to summary judgment on an employee’s claims of wrongful termination, failure to pay overtime wages, and failure to provide meal and rest breaks after he was laid off due to the Covid-19 pandemic and signed a severance agreement waiving his right to sue, a California district court ruled. The court determined that the waiver provision in his severance agreement didn’t violate the California Labor Code, that he agreed that he received all compensation owed to him by his employer, that he never alleged that he wasn’t paid wages he was entitled to, and that he waived ...