Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court
May 18, 2017
Resurrecting the 'spirit' of the 7th day of rest
With its origins reaching back thousands of years, the history behind this law is richer than you think.
Katherine P. Sandberg
Associate
Hunton, Andrews & Kurth LLP
Email: ksandberg@HuntonAK.com
McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific
"Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work ... For in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hollowed it." Exodus 20: 9-11 (KJV)
The California Supreme Court's recent "day of rest" ruling in Mendoza v. Nordstrom, Inc., 2017 DJDAR 4324 (May 16, 2017), determined that ...
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