Cases of Interest

The California Supreme Court struck down an employer’s policy of rounding meal period punches. The Court further held noncompliant meal periods results in a rebuttable presumption of liability against the employer at the summary judgment stage.

Attorney’s fee award upheld without apportionment based on causes of action because defendants failed to show Plaintiff’s unsuccessful causes of action warranted apportionment.

The Court of Appeal held that a plaintiff must prove that a reasonable accommodation was available at the time an interactive process should have been held by their employer.

 Cross-complainant not barred from appealing good faith determination for failure to file a petition for writ of mandate.  Exoneration of a joint tortfeasor from liability does not “aggrieve” other individually liable tortfeasors so as to confer standing to appeal.

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