US Airways Inc. employees who trade shifts aren’t entitled to overtime pay for added shifts because of an exemption for the airline and railway industries in California labor law, the Ninth Circuit said Friday.
The district court correctly sided with the airline in the employees’ proposed class suit for time-and-a-half wages under California Labor Code Section 510, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unpublished memorandum opinion.
A California regulation known as a wage order provided the railway and airline exemption in 1976 after a state commission found “it would be difficult to enforce standards ...
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