Legal Opinion
Duran v. U.S. Bank National Assn.
California Supreme Court
Decided May 29, 2014No. S200923PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CORRIGAN, J.
We encounter here an exceedingly rare beast: a wage and hour class action that proceeded through trial to verdict. Loan officers for U.S. Bank National Association (USB) sued for unpaid overtime, claiming they had been misclassified as exempt employees under the outside salesperson exemption. (Lab. Code, § 1171.) This exemption applies to employees who spend more than 50 percent of the workday engaged in sales activities outside the office. (Ramirez v. Yosemite Water Co. (1999) 20 Cal.4th 785 [85 Cal.Rptr.2d 844, 978 P.2d 2] (Ramirez).)
After certifying a class of 260…
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