Workers claim electronic timekeeping system shorted their pay
A putative class action for unpaid wages against Home Depot U.S.A, Inc. alleged two claims: first, unpaid minimum and overtime wages under section 5101 of California’s Labor Code and under the applicable wage order; and second, unfair competition.
Delmer Camp and Adriana Correa – the plaintiffs in the case of Camp et al. v. Home Depot, USA, Inc. – argued that, during the relevant period, “Kronos,” Home Depot’s electronic timekeeping system, captured each minute that employees worked but, because of the company’s quarter-hour rounding policy, employees were paid wages for less time, in the aggregate, than the timekeeping system reflected.
Correa worked for Home Depot from March 2015 to October 2015. She did not gain or lose minutes due to rounding, as her time and pay records showed. Camp began working for Home Depot in March 2015. The records showed that, between March 2015 and October 2020, he suffered a total net loss of 470 minutes or approximately 7.83 hours of work time due to the rounding policy.
Home Depot filed a motion for summary judgment. It accepted that Camp lost 470 minutes over around four-and-a-half years due to rounding but argued that its rounding practice was neutral and otherwise lawful under the ruling in the case of See’s Candy Shops, Inc. v. Superior Court (2012). The company contended that Correa had no standing to bring an unpaid wages claim because she lost no wages due to the rounding...
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