Legal Opinion
Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Decided April 12, 2012No. S166350PublishedCited by 460 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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WERDEGAR, J.
For the better part of a century, California law has guaranteed to employees wage and hour protection, including meal and rest periods intended to ameliorate the consequences of long hours. For most of that time, only injunctive remedies were available for violations of meal and rest period guarantees. In 2000, however, both the Legislature and the Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) adopted for the first time monetary remedies for the denial of meal and rest breaks. (Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (2007) 40 Cal.4th 1094, 1105-1106 [56 Cal.Rptr.3d 880, 155 P.3d…
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