A trial court improperly granted Home Depot’s summary judgment motion on the putative class action of an employee alleging that because of the company’s quarter-hour rounding policy, workers were paid for less time than captured in the electronic timekeeping system, a California court of appeal ruled. There are triable issues of material fact based on evidence that the employee wasn’t paid for all the work he performed, the appellate court said. Further, the regulatory schemes encompassing state statutes and wage order provisions are concerned with small things like a few extra minutes of time periodically lost due to a purportedly ...

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