Unpaid California County Jail Work Set for Ninth Circuit Debate

An Aramark Corp. subsidiary will urge a federal appeals court in San Francisco to toss a lawsuit from non-convicted inmates at a California county jail who worked for the company without being paid.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument Monday on whether California’s minimum wage and overtime protections apply to work performed by people held in county jails who haven’t been convicted, such as pre-trial defendants and immigration detainees.

Aramark Correctional Services LLC and Alameda County are challenging a federal district judge’s 2021 ruling that denied their motion to dismiss the proposed class ...