Advanced-Tech Security Services, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County

Opinion

KRIEGLER, J.

— Labor Code section 510, subdivision (a) 1 mandates that an employer pay an employee time and one-half for (1) more than eight hours of work in one workday, and (2) more than 40 hours of work in any workweek. In this case, the employer agreed to pay the employee a premium rate of one and one-half times her regular rate of pay for work on designated holidays. The issue presented here is whether the employee is entitled to time and one-half of the premium holiday pay as overtime if the employee works more than eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a week.

We hold that the plain…