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Fallout from Calif. suit brings feast for litigators.

By Jason Siegel

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Employers are getting pummeled with rest and meal-break class actions this year, fallout from a 2007 California decision they claim has plaintiffs coming out of the woodwork, The National Law Journal reports.

The California Supreme Court ruled that payments owed from missed meal and rest breaks are considered wages, not penalties. That gave employees a three-year, rather than a one-year, statute of limitations, and tripled ? in some cases quadrupled ? an employer's exposure to claims for unpaid breaks.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).

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