Jackpot Harvesting Co. v. Superior Court of Monterey Cnty.

*133Labor Code section 226.2,1 which became effective January 1, 2016, addresses the manner in which piece-rate employees are to be compensated for rest and recovery periods and other *134nonproductive time on the job (collectively, rest/NP time). Subdivision (b) of the statute (hereafter section 226.2(b) ) provides a safe harbor for an employer that, prior to 2016, failed to properly compensate its piece-rate workers for rest/NP time.2 Under section 226.2(b), an employer that pays its employees for previously unpaid rest/NP time accrued between July 1, 2012 and December 31, 2015, is entitled to…