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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Fair Labor Standards Act

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

VALERIE WATSON-SMITH and

all others similarly situated,

 Plaintiffs,

 v.

SPHERION ATLANTIC

ENTERPRISES, 

 Defendant.

___________________________/

No. C 07-5774 JSW (WDB)

ORDER FOLLOWING APRIL 1,

2008, TELEPHONIC HEARING

REGARDING DEPOSITIONS

NOTICED BY PLAINTIFF UNDER

FEDERAL RULE OF CIVIL

PROCEDURE 30(b)(6)

On April 1, 2008, the Court heard oral argument in connection with a letter

brief filed jointly by counsel for Plaintiff and Defendant about depositions noticed by

Plaintiff under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”) 30(b)(6). Having considered

the jointly filed letter brief and the arguments of the parties, the Court ruled from the

bench and Ordered that Defendant must produce a witness or witnesses who are

competent to testify about the following: 

(1) Spherion's policies and practices for granting meal breaks, or compensating

for missed meal breaks, for its hourly, non-exempt employees in California from

September 2003 through the present; 

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(2) Spherion’s policies and practices for record keeping about meal breaks,

or compensating for missed meals, for its hourly, non-exempt employees in California

from September 2003 to the present; 

(3) Spherion's policies and practices for reimbursement for travel expenses

incurred by California employees for travel required by their employment from

September 2003 through the present;

(4) Whether, and under what circumstances, employers to whom Spherion

sends employees are required or expected to follow Spherion's policies and practices

for hourly, non-exempt California employees about:

(a) granting meal breaks or compensating for missed meals, and

(b) record keeping about meal breaks and compensation for missed meals;

(5) Whether, and under what circumstances, employers to whom Spherion

sends employees are required or expected to follow Spherion's policies and practices

for employees about reimbursement for travel expenses incurred by California

employees for travel required by their employment. 

(6) If some of the employers to whom Spherion sends employees are required

or expected to follow Spherion's policies and practices with regard to these matters

and some are not, the Rule 30(b)(6) witness(es) that Spherion produces must disclose:

(a) the number of employers in each of these two categories since

September of 2003 (i.e., the number who have been required or expected to follow

Spherion's policies in these areas and the number who have not), and 

(b) the approximate number of employees Spherion has sent to the

employers in each category since September of 2003. 

IT IS SO ORDERED 

Dated: April 2, 2008

 

WAYNE D. BRAZIL

United States Magistrate Judge

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