Ramirez v. Yosemite Water Company

Opinion

MOSK, J.

Generally, employees in the State of California who work more than 40 hours per week and 8 hours per day (at least, in the latter case, up until January 1, 1998) have had the right to receive premium pay for the hours worked over this limit. (See Wilcox, Cal. Employment Law (rev. Mar. 1998) § 3.04, pp. 3-21 to 3-28.) Labor Code section 1171 1 expressly excludes from the overtime laws employees who are “outside salespersons,” 2 and the California Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC), the agency charged with implementing section 1171, defined the term “outside salesperson” in Wage…