Madera Police Officers Assn. v. City of Madera

Opinion

REYNOSO, J.

We granted hearing to determine whether police officers, sergeants and dispatchers are entitled, as a result of the limitations placed on their mealtime periods, to payment for overtime hours worked. That entitlement depends on whether their lunch and dinner hours are considered worktime, inasmuch as the City of Madera mandates overtime pay for those police department employees who work in excess of the normal eight-hour day and forty-hour week. We conclude that the constraints placed on the activities and conduct of the concerned employees during their mealtime are so…