An Aramark Corp. subsidiary will urge a federal appeals court in San Francisco to toss a lawsuit from non-convicted inmates at a California county jail who worked for the company without being paid.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument Monday on whether California’s minimum wage and overtime protections apply to work performed by people held in county jails who haven’t been convicted, such as pre-trial defendants and immigration detainees.
Aramark Correctional Services LLC and Alameda County are challenging a federal district judge’s 2021 ruling that denied their motion to dismiss the proposed class action.
The case comes at a time of increasing attention on the broad use of unpaid or poorly compensated labor in the US correctional system. Roughly two-thirds of the 1.2 million people incarcerated in state and federal prisons work, according to a June report from the American Civil Liberties Union. Those prisoners produce more than $11 billion in goods and services each year, while earning between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour on average, the report said.
Colorado enacted a law in March providing minimum wage to some state prison inmates employed by private companies. The Ninth Circuit is mulling a private prison company’s challenge to $23.2 million in damages it faces for its $1-per-day immigration detainee work program, while the Fourth...
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