California Court Trends Toward Worker Pay Beyond Scheduled Shift

The California Supreme Court this week reinforced its trend of asserting that workers should be paid for every minute of their labor, adding specificity to when a worker is considered to be under an employer’s control.

The March 25 ruling in Huerta v. CSI Electrical Contractors, which found that workers should be paid for time spent waiting for a visual inspection of their cars at the end of a shift, joins at least two other major decisions in which the state’s Supreme Court has employees are entitled to pay for mandatory processes that take place beyond a worker’s scheduled ...