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Labor/Employment

Feb. 18, 2006

Clear Majority on the Courts Says Pay Recovery Is Penalty

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz - A consensus of sorts has emerged to settle one of the most hotly contested issues in California wage-hour law: whether the "additional hour of pay" owed to an employee under Labor Code Section 226.7 who has been denied required rest or meal breaks is a wage or statutory penalty.

        
Focus Column

By Steven B. Katz
        
        A consensus of sorts has emerged to settle one of the most hotly contested issues in California wage-hour law: whether the "additional hour of pay" owed to an employee under Labor Code Section 226.7 who has been denied required rest or meal...

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