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Existing law, the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights (Labor Code section 1451-1453), regulates the hours of work of domestic work employees who are personal attendants and provides an overtime compensation rate for those employees. The Domestic Worker Bill of Rights defines terms for its purposes and requires the Governor to convene a committee to study and report to the Governor on the effects of its provisions on personal attendants and their employers.
providers, caregivers of people with disabilities, sick, convalescing, or elderly persons, house cleaners, housekeepers, maids, and other household occupations.
(b) (1) "Domestic work employee" means an individual who performs domestic work and includes live-in domestic work employees and personal attendants.
(C) Any person under 18 years of age who is employed as a babysitter for a minor child of the domestic work employer in the employer's home.
No. 15-2001 of the Industrial Welfare Commission.
(c) (1) "Domestic work employer" means a person, including corporate officers or executives, who directly or indirectly, or through an agent or any other person, including through the services of a third-party employer, temporary service, or staffing agency or similar entity, employs or exercises control over the wages, hours, or working conditions of a domestic work employee.
(d) "Personal attendant" means any person employed by a private householder or by any third-party employer recognized in the health care industry to work in a private household, to supervise, feed, or dress a child, or a person who by reason of advanced age, physical disability, or mental deficiency needs supervision. The status of personal attendant shall apply when no significant amount of work other than the foregoing is required. For purposes of this subdivision, "no significant amount of work" means work other than the foregoing did not exceed 20 percent of the total weekly hours worked.
AB 1066, a bill authored Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), to provide daily overtime to California agricultural workers, has been signed into law by Governor Brown.
Existing law sets wage, hour, meal break requirements, and other working conditions for employees and requires an employer to pay overtime wages as specified to an employee who works in excess of a workday or workweek, as defined, and imposes criminal penalties for the violation of these requirements. Existing law has exempted agricultural employees from these requirements.
AB 1066, the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016, removes this exemption for agricultural employees regarding hours, meal breaks, and other working conditions, and creates a schedule phases in overtime requirements for agricultural workers over the course of 4 years (from 2019 to 2022). Beginning January 1, 2022, the bill will require any work performed by a person, employed in an agricultural occupation, in excess of 12 hours in one day to be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the employee’s regular rate of pay. The bill would provide employers who employ 25 or fewer employees an additional 3 years to comply with the phasing in of these overtime requirements. The bill also authorizes the Governor to delay the implementation of these overtime pay provisions if the Governor also suspends the implementation of a scheduled state minimum wage increase. The bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to update a specified wage order for consistency with these provisions, as specified.
(a) Sections 551 and 552 do not apply to cases of emergency or to work performed in the protection of life or property from loss or destruction, or to any common carrier engaged in or connected with the movement of trains. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent an accumulation of days of rest when the nature of the employment reasonably requires that the employee work seven or more consecutive days, if in each calendar month the employee receives days of rest equivalent to one day’s rest in seven. The requirement respecting the equivalent of one day’s rest in seven shall apply, notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter relating to collective bargaining agreements, where the employer and a labor organization representing employees of the employer have entered into a valid collective bargaining agreement respecting the hours of work of the employees, unless the agreement expressly provides otherwise.
(b) In addition to the exceptions specified in subdivision (a), the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement may, when in his or her judgment hardship will result, exempt any employer or employees from the provisions of Sections 551 and 552.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016.
(a) Agricultural employees engage in back-breaking work every day.
(b) Few occupations in today’s America are as physically demanding and exhausting as agricultural work.
(c) In 1938, the United States Congress enacted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 201 et seq.), which excluded agricultural workers from wage protections and overtime compensation requirements.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016 to provide any person employed in an agricultural occupation in California, as defined in Order No. 14-2001 of the Industrial Welfare Commission (revised 07-2014) with an opportunity to earn overtime compensation under the same standards as millions of other Californians.
For purposes of this chapter, “employed in an agricultural occupation” has the same meaning as in Order No.14-2001 of the Industrial Welfare Commission (revised 07-2014).
(a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2019, except as provided in paragraph (2), any person employed in an agricultural occupation shall not be employed more than nine and one-half hours in any one workday or work in excess of 55 hours in any one workweek, unless the employee receives one and one-half times that employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over nine and one-half hours in any workday or over 55 hours in any workweek.
(2) This subdivision shall apply to an employer who employs 25 or fewer employees commencing January 1, 2022.
(b) (1) Commencing January 1, 2020, except as provided in paragraph (2), any person employed in an agricultural occupation shall not be employed more than nine hours in any one workday or work in excess of 50 hours in any one workweek, unless the employee receives one and one-half times that employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over nine hours in any workday or over 50 hours in any workweek.
(2) This subdivision shall apply to an employer who employs 25 or fewer employees commencing January 1, 2023.
(c) (1) Commencing January 1, 2021, except as provided in paragraph (2), any person employed in an agricultural occupation shall not be employed more than eight and one-half hours in any one workday or work in excess of 45 hours in any one workweek, unless the employee receives one and one-half times that employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight and one-half hours in any workday or over 45 hours in any workweek.
(2) This subdivision shall apply to an employer who employs 25 or fewer employees commencing January 1, 2024.
(d) (1) Commencing January 1, 2022, except as provided in paragraph (2), any person employed in an agricultural occupation shall not be employed more than eight hours in any one workday or work in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek, unless the employee receives one and one-half times that employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any workday or over 40 hours in any workweek.
(2) This subdivision shall apply to an employer who employs 25 or fewer employees commencing January 1, 2025.
Except as set forth in Section 860 and subdivision (a) of Section 862, all other provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 500) regarding compensation for overtime work shall apply to workers in an agricultural occupation commencing January 1, 2017.
(a) Beginning January 1, 2022, except as provided in subdivision (c), and consistent with Section 510, any work performed by a person, employed in an agricultural occupation, in excess of 12 hours in one day shall be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the employee’s regular rate of pay.
(b) Consistent with Section 861, notwithstanding subdivision (a) or Section 863, the other provisions of Section 510 shall be applicable to workers in an agricultural occupation commencing January 1, 2019.
(c) Subdivision (a) shall apply to an employer who employs 25 or fewer employees commencing January 1, 2025.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 860 or 862, the Governor may temporarily suspend scheduled phase in of the overtime requirements set forth in Section 860, or subdivision (a) of Section 862 only if the Governor suspends scheduled minimum wage increases pursuant to clause (i) of subparagraph (A) of, and subparagraph (B) of, paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 1182.12.
(b) If the Governor makes a final determination to temporarily suspend scheduled phase in of the overtime requirements set forth in Section 860 or subdivision (a) of Section 862 for the following year, all implementation dates applicable to Section 860 and subdivision (a) of Section 862 that are suspended subsequent to the September 1 final determination date, consistent with clause (i) of subparagraph (A) of, and subparagraph (B) of, paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 1182.12, shall be postponed by an additional year, but the full implementation of the overtime requirements set forth in Section 860 or subdivision (a) of Section 862 shall in no event be later than January 1, 2022. The Governor’s temporary suspension under this section shall be by proclamation.
(c) The Governor’s authority to suspend the scheduled overtime requirements under this section shall end upon the phase in of the overtime requirements contained in subdivision (d) of Section 860, the phase in of the overtime requirements contained in subdivision (c) of Section 862, or January 1, 2025, whichever occurs first.
The Department of Industrial Relations shall update Wage Order No. 14-2001 to be consistent with this chapter, except that any existing provision in Wage Order 14-2001 providing greater protections or benefits to agricultural employees shall continue in full force and effect, notwithstanding any provision of this chapter.
Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during any meal or rest period mandated by an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) and establishes penalties for an employer’s failure to provide a mandated meal or rest period.
This bill would make that prohibition applicable to a meal or rest or recovery period mandated by applicable statute or applicable regulation, standard, or order of the IWC, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, or the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The bill would exempt specified employees from the prohibition. The bill would require an employer to pay an employee, for any meal or rest or recovery period mandated by law, one additional hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period is not provided. The bill would define “recovery period” for those purposes.
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Q: If an employer doesn't let the employee take her lunch, doesn't it owe her overtime for that missed lunch break?
A: California's overtime and meal period laws imposed entirely separate obligations to the employer. A missed meal period does not necessarily mean the employer owes overtime. There are times when that is the case, however. For example, if the employer had the employee clock out for the meal period, but the employer was required to work during the meal period, and also worked 8 hours on the clock that day. In that example, the employee's meal period should count as hours worked, and since the additional time makes the employee's workday exceed 8 hour, and the additional time should be paid at one and a half times the employee's regular rate of pay.
Independent of the overtime issue, however, an employer who causes an employee to miss a required meal period will owe the employee an extra hour of pay at the employee's regular rate, pursuant to Labor Code § 226.7.
Under Labor Code § 512, the employer may not employ an employee for a work period of more than five hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than thirty minutes, except that if the total work period per day of the employee is no more than six hours, the meal period may be waived by mutual consent of both the employer and employee.
A second meal period of not less than thirty minutes is required if an employee works more than ten hours per day, except that if the total hours worked is no more than 12 hours, the second meal period may be waived by mutual consent of the employer and employee only if the first meal period was not waived.
If the employer requires the employee to remain on premises during the meal period, it must be a paid meal period, whether or not the employee is relieved of all duties during the meal period. Bono Enterprises, In. v. Bradshaw (1995) 32 Cal.App.4th 968.
Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 8.520(f)(7) and this court's December 2, 2011, order, the parties' answers to the amicus curiae brief of the California Employment Law Council, addressing the grounds for prospectively applying portions of this court's eventual decision on the merits, are due Tuesday, January 3, 2012. Each party may file a simultaneous reply to the other party's answer within 10 days thereafter. Submission of the cause is vacated. (See Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.524(h)(1) [submission runs from expiration of the time in which to file briefs, including supplemental briefs].) The cause will be resubmitted on January 13, 2012.
As a result, don't expect a decision until sometime next Spring. It could be as late as April 12, 2012.
If you didn't get a chance to watch the Brinker argument live, you can watch it here at your leisure.
We received word from Katie Lichty, the Project Coordinator for the California Channel, that the Brinker hearing will indeed be broadcast live tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. You can watch it on cable if you get the California Channel, or you can watch it streamed live at www.calchannel.com.
This proceeding will be heard at the Supreme Court’s Courtroom, Earl Warren Center, 350 McAllister Street, San Francisco, where you can watch it in person - if you come early enough to get a seat. For more information please contact the court’s press office at (415) 865.7726.
We've been told that the California Supreme Court's oral argument in the Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court matter will be broadcast live on the California Channel on November 8, 2011 at 9 a.m. If so, you can access the broadcast here. We haven't been able to confirm this ourselves, however, as the current broadcast schedule on the site only covers the period through October 29, 2011.
Brinker Restaurant v. Superior Court (Hohnbaum), one of the most eagerly-awaited cases on the California Supreme Court's docket, will be argued on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in San Francisco. The petition for review of the decision in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25 was filed more than three years ago. The case presents issues concerning the proper interpretation of California's statutes and regulations governing an employer's duty to provide meal and rest breaks to hourly workers.
Here is our take on the original opinion, published on July 22, 2008. There are quite a few companion cases.
There are now four cases in which the California Supreme Court has granted review and held pending further decision in the Brinker Restaurant v. Superior Court matter. Brinker, which "presents issues concerning the proper interpretation of California's statutes and regulations governing an employer's duty to provide meal and rest breaks to hourly workers" is fully briefed and awaits a hearing date for oral argument. The first grant-and-hold review was in Brinkley v. Public Storage (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 1278, followed by the unpublished decision in Bradley v. Networkers International, LLC (Petition for review after the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment in a civil action).
Add to them now Faulkinbury v. Boyd & Associates (2010) Cal.App.4th 1363 (Petition for review after the Court of Appeal affirmed in part and reversed in part an order denying class certification in a civil action) and the unpublished opinion in Brookler v. Radioshack Corporation (Petition for review after the Court of Appeal reversed an order decertifying a class action).
Next on the likely list of cases to be granted review and held - Hernandez v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (2010) __ Cal.App.4th __. (Opinion in pdf here, or in Word here). The Chamber of Commerce is taking a bit of a victory lap for this opinion, which was originally handed down as an unpublished decision, but was ordered published on October 28. It is likely to be a short lap, at least until and unless the Supreme Court weighs in on Brinker in favor of the employers.
The Supreme Court denied petitions for review and depublication in Brewer v. Premier Golf Properties (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 1243. We discussed the opinion in an earlier post that can be found at this link. The case was notable both for declaring punitive damages unavailable in claims made for Labor Code wage-and-hour violations, and for upholding the trial court's award for meal period and rest period violations. A remittitur was issued on March 23, 2009.
The FLSA has no meal period requirement, but 21 U.S. states or other jurisdictions have meal period requirements; seven of those (California, Colorado, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington) also have rest periods requirements. Meal periods for minor workers are mandated in 35 states or territories. For a comparison of all states' meal and rest period laws, check out this page at the DOL's website.
Whatever Happened in Banda v. Richard Bagdasarian?
We wondered what happened in Banda v. Richard Bagdasarian, Inc. 2008 WL 888524, one of the penalty/wage cases that was a companion case to Murphy v Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (2007) 40 C4th 1094, and checked to see if it was still pending. It is not. In April 2008, in an unpublished opinion, the Fourth District, Division Two, ordered the Superior Court to approve a settlement agreement in the matter. In Banda, a class of farmworkers challenged the defendant’s failure to provide meal periods and rest breaks, and its practice of requiring them to taste unwashed and pesticide-laden grapes for sweetness. The claims were brought under the Unfair Competition Law. The first unpublished Fourth District opinion, 2006 WL 1554441, had been transferred by the Supreme Court back to the Fourth District on May 23, 2007, for reconsideration in light of Murphy.
The main provisions of the settlement agreement create a settlement fund to be distributed by a settlement administrator (1) to pay specified fees, costs, and expenses and (2) to make specified payments in compensation for omitted breaks ( Lab.Code, § 226.7) to plaintiffs and other persons employed by defendant during the 2001 and 2002 harvests who show their entitlement under the settlement agreement by timely submitting a settlement claim form. No provision is made for payment of wait time penalties. ( Lab.Code, § 203.) Claimants must execute a release of any and all claims “resulting from or occurring in connection with [the claimant's] employment by [defendant].” The settlement agreement includes a procedure to notify potentially eligible claimants.
Pursuant to the Supreme Court's transfer order, the opinion previously filed June 8, 2006, is vacated. Pursuant to the stipulation of the parties, the judgment is reversed. This reversal of the judgment does not indicate a ruling on the merits of the judgment, but serves only to vacate the judgment and restore jurisdiction to the trial court so that it may carry out the following directions implementing and enforcing the parties' settlement agreement.
The clerk of this court is directed to send, with the copy of this opinion sent to the superior court, a copy of the recitals re: stipulation to reverse, with the attached settlement agreement, filed in this court April 2, 2008. The trial court is directed: (1) to approve the settlement agreement, and to approve the form and content of the settlement notice and claim form attached to the settlement agreement; (2) to enter a judgment ordering the agreed permanent injunction, which shall terminate at the conclusion of the 2012 grape harvest, and ordering the parties to abide by the terms of the settlement agreement; and (3) to retain jurisdiction until the permanent injunction is terminated to take any actions necessary to implement and enforce the injunction, the judgment, and the settlement agreement.
The opinion did not mention the dollar amount of the settlement, but two news stories reported that the cash value of the settlement was $585,000.
The Supreme Court has extended its time to grant or deny a petition for review that was filed in January in Brewer v. Premier Golf Properties (2008) 168 Cal.App.4th 1243. We discussed the opinion in a post that can be found at this link. The case was notable both for declaring punitive damages unavailable in claims made for Labor Code wage-and-hour violations, and for upholding the trial court's award for meal period and rest period violations. The time for granting or denying review in the above-entitled matter is now extended to and including April 8, 2009, or the date upon which review is either granted or denied.
As we wait for the California Supreme Court to decide Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25, we can assume with a high degree of certainty that any state court opinion dealing with provide/permit issues or meal/rest break certification orders will be reviewed as a companion case to Brinker. For the next few months, therefore, we will have only Cicairos v. Summit Logistics (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 949 as controlling authority in Superior Court, but in U.S. District Court, judges are free to guess what they think the California Supreme Court would decide.** When interpreting state law, federal courts are bound by decisions of the state's highest court (In re Kirkland (9th Cir.1990) 915 F.2d 1236, 1238), but in the absence of such a decision, a federal court shall apply the rule that it believes the state supreme court would adopt if faced with the same issue. Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Berkeley (9th Cir.1995) 59 F.3d 988, 991.
If you are aware of any others, please drop us an email or leave a comment and we will add them to the list. The opening brief in Brinker has been filed.
** Well, maybe not entirely free to guess. As a reader points out, a Ninth Circuit case from Oregon holds that a federal court is obligated to follow the decisions of the state's intermediate appeallate courts, unless there is convincing evidence that the state supreme court would decide differently. Ryman v. Sears-Roebuck & Co. (9th Cir. 2007) 505 F.3d 993, 995.
FN2. Although not dispositive, we note that the Oregon Supreme Court declined to grant review of Yeager. See Yeager v. Providence Health Sys. Or., 337 Or. 658, 103 P.3d 641 (2004) (table).
Given the decision of the Supreme Court not to review Cicairos v. Summit Logistics (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 949 and Bufil v. Dollar Financial Group, Inc. (2008) 162 Cal.App.4th 1193, and their decision to grant review in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25, and Brinkley v. Public Storage, Inc. (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 1278, in a case where the employer cannot clearly distinguish Cicairos, the District Court should feel obligated to follow it.
Review Denied in Dimon v. County of L.A.
The Supreme Court has denied review in Dimon v. County of Los Angeles (2008) 166 Cal.App.4th 1276, a meal/rest period case in which the court held that charter counties are not bound by Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders concerning such breaks. We briefly discussed the case last week.
A petition for review has been granted in Brinkley v. Public Storage, Inc. (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 1278, the paystub violation and meal and rest break case that was published on October 28, 2008. As we predicted, the case was given a Rule 8.512(d) grant-and-hold review, and is now a companion case to Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25.
The petition for review is GRANTED. Further action in this matter is deferred pending consideration and disposition of a related issue in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court, S166350 (see Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.512(d)(2)), or pending further order of the court. Submission of additional briefing, pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 8.520, is deferred pending further order of the court.
George, C.J., was absent and did not participate. Votes: Corrigan, A.C.J., Kennard, Baxter, Werdegar, Chin and Moreno, JJ.
We previously discussed Brinkley in posts that can be found here and here.
Brinkley is no longer good law and cannot be cited in California courts. California Rules of Court, Rule 8.115 prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, and Rule 8.1105(e)(1) provides that unless otherwise ordered, an opinion is no longer considered published if the Supreme Court grants review.
Briefing in the Brinker case gets underway next week.
Employees working for a charter county are not governed by any IWC Wage Orders, and the county has exclusive authority to provide for the compensation and conditions of employment of its employees. Therefore, the employees cannot state a cause of action for failure to provide meal periods. Dimon v. County of Los Angeles (2008) 166 Cal.App.4th 1276.
the County has exclusive authority, as a charter county, to provide for the compensation and conditions of employment of its employees, and has done so with respect to probation officers through a collective bargaining agreement adopted by resolution. It is thus exempt from state statutes and regulations governing meal breaks.
You can download the full text of Dimon (for a while, at least), at links here in pdf or word format.
In recent years, defense lawyers have enjoyed a pro-business trend in California court decisions. The Court of Appeal’s decision in Brinker Restaurant Corp., et al. v. Superior Court of San Diego, 2008 DJDAR 11267, which many of us have been watching closely, is no exception.
In Brinker, employees of a large international restaurant chain operating more than 175 restaurants in California, claim they were improperly denied meal and rest breaks. The plaintiffs argue their case is certifiable as a class action under California law. The Court of Appeal disagreed, vacating a lower court’s order certifying the case as a class action.
On October 22, the California Supreme Court agreed to review the case.
The Court of Appeal’s core legal holding was that break periods need not be “ensured” by the employer but only “made available.” This, despite the fact that an earlier case, Cicairos v. Summit Logistics, Inc., 133 Cal.App.4th 949 (2005), held that California “employers have ‘an affirmative obligation to ensure that workers are actually relieved of all duty’” during a break.
According to the Court of Appeal, the statistical proof offered by the plaintiffs showed only that breaks were not taken. While this might have resolved the question of whether the defendants “ensured” the breaks, it did not show that the defendants failed to “make them available.” The Court of Appeal held that too much individualized proof would be needed to litigate the claims on the latter standard, making class certification inappropriate.
The Court of Appeal’s underlying legal holding in Brinker is rife with problems. The California Labor Code indicates that employers must “provid[e]” meal breaks. The Industrial Welfare Commission similarly mandates rest periods. Plaintiffs argue that under these provisions, employers should be required to make sure employees take their breaks. The Court of Appeal rejected this argument, emphasizing how burdensome it would be for the corporate defendants to ensure that employees utilize their break time; and how under this standard, individual employees might game the system to the significant detriment of their employers.
According to the Court of Appeal, therefore, all employers should be required to do is merely permit meal and rest breaks. This was the court’s fundamental error.
To be sure, “providing” breaks to employees does not mean holding a gun to their heads until they take them. The requirement cannot be that employers force employees to take breaks. But, by the same token, requiring employers merely to permit breaks, without any additional teeth, seems far too lenient under the circumstances.
So worried was the Court of Appeal about not imposing any additional administrative burden on employers, and about individual employees “gaming” their bosses, that it failed to recognize how its relaxed standard could be unfairly exploited by California employers.
The Court of Appeal suggested that an employer complies with the statutes so long as employees are not “forced to forego” breaks. But this ignores the many ways in which organized managers can unfairly treat employees in connection with break time, short of actually “forcing” an employee not to take a break.
An employer can comply by merely granting (or at least not refusing) express requests, if any, to take permissible breaks, but failing otherwise to broach the issue. Meanwhile, the employer is free to pile substantial work on employees under time requirements and a demeanor that suggest no break should or can be taken.
The Court of Appeal’s holding focuses too narrowly (and too inflexibly) on a pointy-headed dictionary definition, ignoring the practical context in which these rights are exercised, or not. In a busy, time-constrained work environment, there are many natural disincentives to take breaks. Managers and supervisors, even while recognizing break rights, often look askance at them and the employees who dutifully take them.
Employees who work through their breaks, or take shorter breaks, may get more praise and credit than those who don’t. The dynamic is intensified in an uncertain economy and for many immigrant groups who can be exceedingly obedient and timid.
If affirmed, Brinker will substantially “chill” the exercise and enforcement of break rights because employees may not be able to find representation. Plaintiffs’ lawyers are less likely to pursue individual meal and rest break cases because it will not be worth it to them.
Without lawyers, these important individual rights will not be asserted as much in court. And an unasserted right is, for all intents and purposes, a nonexistent right. Brinker’s procedural holding therefore has immense practical ramifications that I’m not sure the Court of Appeal, in its pro-employer analytical framework, properly took into account.
Taking into account context and good policy, the law can, and should, be read to require employers not only to give meaningful, individualized notice of break rights, but also affirmatively to schedule breaks for all employees. Breaks should be part of each employee’s schedule, and employers should be required regularly to encourage and remind employees to take them.
Under this more balanced standard, these cases would be about whether breaks were scheduled and regularly encouraged by the employer -- which would be the employer’s burden to prove. Class status would be easier to attain since the cases would not involve lots of individualized proof. And with class status comes a more level playing field, and therefore a fairer result.
The Supreme Court should buck the pro-business judicial trend and reverse the Court of Appeal in Brinker.
Aaron T. Knapp is a writer, speaker, and sole practitioner in San Francisco with significant experience in employment matters. He is also the founder of The Post Partisan (http://postpartisannews.com), a public affairs opinion/blogging/community website.
In 2003, a California trial court certified a class in Savaglio v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., reportedly consisting of more than 115,000 hourly Wal-Mart employees, which sought to recover premium payments from Wal-Mart under Labor Code § 226.7 for missed or late meal periods. In December 2005, an Alameda County jury awarded the class more than $66 million in premium payments and $115 million in punitive damages. Wal-Mart appealed and the case is currently pending before the First Appellate District, Division Four.
"Subject to further order of this court, appellants' motion to stay further proceedings pending the Supreme Court's decision in Brinker v. Superior Court is granted. The request to establish a briefing schedule following the decision in Brinker will be addressed at a later time."
Among the issues that Wal-Mart raised on appeal was whether California's "new right-exclusive remedy" rule bars a punitive damage award in a wage and hour case. The 4th District Court of Appeal recently ruled that punitive damages are generally unavailable as part of a claim for meal break, rest break or overtime claims based upon Labor Code violations in Brewer v. Premier Golf Properties (2008) __ Cal.App.4th __.
While Brinker will be binding upon the Court of Appeal in the Savaglio case, Brewer will not be binding upon the First District, and the case does present a possibility of a split between appellate districts. However, we expect a petition for review to be filed in Brewer, and the Supreme Court will likely have denied or granted review in that case long before the stay is lifted in Savaglio.
We previously discussed Savaglio in posts you can find at links here, here, here and here.
As the legislature mulls over proposals to weaken the meal and rest period statutes and regulations, here's a link to the report of the Public Forums on Meal and Rest Breaks by State Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet, as well as a link to the Summary of Comments and a link to the transcripts.
The California legislature has convened a special session to consider some of the proposals governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made in November. A copy of the governor's proclamation regarding the special session can be seen at this link.
Exempt employees in executive, sales, administrative, and professional jobs who earn more than $100,000 annually from overtime pay.
Allow employees to work flexible hours in excess of 8 per day, i.e., 10/40 work weeks without overtime.
Relax existing law regarding meal and rest periods to provide employers and employees with a clear understanding of meal breaks and offering flexibility to both businesses and workers.
This bill would have extended protections afforded to employees covered by an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission to pool lifeguards and stage assistants who employed in the public sector. The bill specified that pool lifeguards and stage assistants employed by a city, county, or special district, shall not be required to work during any meal and rest period required for non-exempt employees under existing law. The bill specified that if the public sector employer failed to provide a meal or rest period, the employer shall pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of compensation. In addition, the bill specified that should these requirements be in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached between an employer and a recognized employee organization, the provisions of the MOU shall control.
This bill would have extended protections afforded to employees covered by an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission to pool lifeguards who are employed in the public sector. The bill specified that pool lifeguards employed by a city, county, or special district shall not be required to work during any meal and rest period required for non-exempt employees under existing law. The bill specified that if the employer failed to provide a meal or rest period, the employer would have to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest period was not provided. In addition, the bill specified that if these requirements were in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached between an employer and a recognized employee organization, the provisions of the MOU shall control. This bill was very similar to AB 124 (Price) from the previous year which addressed meal and rest period requirements for both pool lifeguards and stage assistants, however, this bill targets only pool lifeguards.
This bill would have extended protections afforded to employees covered by an order of the Industrial Welfare Commission to stage assistants who are employed in the public sector. The bill specified that stage assistants employed by a city, county, or special district shall not be required to work during any meal and rest period required for non-exempt employees under existing law. The bill specified that if the employer failed to provide a meal or rest period, the employer would have to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest period was not provided. In addition, the bill specified that if these requirements were in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached between an employer and a recognized employee organization, the provisions of the MOU shall control. This bill was very similar to AB 124 (Price) from the previous year which addressed meal and rest period requirements for both pool lifeguards and stage assistants; however, this bill targets only stage assistants.
This bill would have declared the intent of the legislature to clarify the law regarding on-duty meal periods for employees who work in the armored car industry.
This bill would have allowed employees to take their first meal period before the conclusion of the 6th hour of work, decreased the statute of limitations on penalties for failing to provide a meal period, and defined the employer’s responsibility to provide a meal period as making a meal period available without interference.
This bill would have required an employer to provide meal periods to employees covered by Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders before the conclusion of the sixth hour of work; defined an employer responsibility to provide a meal period as giving the employee an opportunity to take a meal period; would have exempted all employees covered by collective bargaining agreements from meal period requirements if the collective bargaining agreement covers meal periods, and would have codified and expanded on-duty meal period requirements.
This was originally introduced as a bill related to water; later it was re-referred to this committee ( L. & I.R.) pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. Bill was held in committee pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. This bill would have stipulated that meal periods must begin no later than the conclusion of an employee’s 6th hour of work, exempted employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement that dealt with meal periods, codified on-duty meal period regulations, and permitted the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to adopt regulations specifying the circumstances preventing employees from being relieved of all duty during a meal period.
The sessions, so far, have been unproductive.
A petition for review has been filed in Brinkley v. Public Storage, Inc. (2008) 167 Cal.App.4th 1278, the paystub violation and meal and rest break case that was published on October 28, 2008. We previously discussed Brinkley in posts that can be found here and here. We think that, even if there was no Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25, the Brinkley opinion's break with Cicairos v. Summit Logistics, Inc. (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 949 would make a compelling case for Supreme Court review. Among other things, Brinkley draws the conclusion that it would be "impossible" for employers with large work forces to enforce meal breaks; that there is no requirement for employers to schedule breaks within the first five hours; and that employers only have to make breaks available, applying a standard that equates the "provide" language in the meal period regulations with the "permit and authorize" language of the rest period regulations.
You can download Brinkley here in pdf or MS Word format. The Supreme Court has 60 days from December 4, 2008, to decide whether to grant or deny review. Absent an order granting themselves another 30 days, which is somewhat unlikely in this case, that means that a decision on the petition for review can be expected on or before January 28, 2009. We expect the Supreme Court to issue a "grant and hold" review order, deeming this a related case to Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court.
We offer a hearty welcome to those of you who found this blog after attending Bridgeport's seminar on Wage & Hour litigation at UCLA on Tuesday and Wednesday. Every time I present something on recent developments in wage and hour law, I recite the mantra that this is one of the most busily changing areas of practice, and that rarely does a week go by without some significant development in the law coming from the courts, the legislatures, the DLSE or the DOL. Usually, something interesting pops up in the first few days after the seminar, and this was no exception.
Yesterday, the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled that punitive damages are generally unavailable as part of a claim for meal break, rest break or overtime claims based upon Labor Code violations, but attorney's fees are recoverable under Labor Code § 218.5 "because it is now settled that compensation for missed meal and rest breaks are wages" [citing Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (2007) 40 Cal.4th 1094]. Brewer v. Premier Golf Properties (2008) __ Cal.App.4th __.
The question of whether an aggrieved employee is entitled to punitive damages in an overtime case had never been squarely addressed in a published holding in a California case. The closest thing we had to a ruling on that issue was a bit of dictum in Gentry v. Superior Court (2007) 42 Cal.4th 443, that began with "Although exemplary damages are not available in overtime suits (see section 1194.2...)"
Employers seeking to avoid punitive damage claims would cite Gentry, and would argue something along these lines: Where a right is created by statute and the statute does not expressly permit punitive damages, punitive damages under California Civil Code section 3294 are not available. Turnbull & Turnbull v. ARA Transp., Inc. (1990) 219 Cal. App.3d 811, 826-27, 268 Cal. Rptr. 856 ("when a new right . . . is created by statute and a statutory remedy for the infringement thereof is provided, such remedy is exclusive of all others") (citing Orloff v. L.A. Turf Club (1947) 30 Cal.2d 110, 112-13, 180 P.2d 321); Czechowski v. Tandy Corp. (N.D. Cal 1990) 731 F.Supp. 406, 410 (penalty provision provided by Labor Code precludes award of punitive damages). Furthermore, claims under section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code will not support an award of punitive damages. Korea Supply Co. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. (2003) 29 Cal. 4th 1134, 1148.
"[P]unitive damages are not recoverable when liability is premised solely on the employer's violation of the Labor Code statutes that regulate meal and rest breaks, pay stubs, and minimum wage laws." Brewer v. Premier Golf Properties (2008) __ Cal.App.4th __. "Labor Code statutes regulating meal and rest breaks, pay stubs, and minimum wages provide express statutory remedies, including penalties for violation of those statutes that are punitive in nature, that are available when an employer has violated those provisions, and are exclusive remedy available for such statutory violations absent evidence that statutory remedy is inadequate."
It is left to our imagination what kind of evidentiary showing would be necessary to establish that the statutory remedy under the Labor Code would be inadequate. We suspect that this holding would not have compelled a different result under so-called "slavery" cases, such as Bureerong v. Uvawas (1996) 922 F.Supp. 1450, where the District Court permitted punitive damages to be asserted in a wage claim brought by garment workers who were denied minimum wage and overtime.
Elsewhere in the Brewer opinion, the court upheld the trial court's award of $6,000 for unpaid meal and rest break wages (Labor Code § 226.7), $4,000 in pay stub penalties (Labor Code § 226), and $15,300 for "minimum wage" penalties (Labor Code § 1197.1). The court rejected the employer's statute of limitations defense on the penalties, rejected the employee's appeal of an order denying a JNOV based upon a claim for waiting time penalties, and held that the plaintiff had no obligation to exhaust any administrative remedies as a condition to the recovery of any penalties. The last point was founded upon the holding in Mokler v. County of Orange (2007) 157 Cal.App.4th 121, 133-136 that a party's failure to exhaust administrative remedies may not be raised for the first time in the appeal from the allegedly void judgment.
The published part of the opinion also addressed various FEHA issues, which is off topic for us, and we will leave that for others to discuss. For a the next few weeks, you will be able to download the full text of the opinion in Brewer here in PDF or MS Word format.
In a press conference today, Governor Schwarzenegger called for a temporary 1½ cent statewide sales tax increase, along with new taxes on liquor and oil as part of a plan to increase revenues $4.4 billion to make up part of an $11 billion budget deficit. At the same time, Schwarzenegger proposed $4.5 billion in spending cuts.
To save money on wages to state workers, the governor proposes to require them to take a one-day unpaid furlough each month. Columbus Day and Lincoln's Birthday would no longer be paid state holidays, and premium pay for working a holiday would be dropped. State agencies would be given the option of establishing 10-hour, four-day work weeks, and employees would no longer be allowed to count leave time as hours worked while computing overtime pay.
Oddly enough, part of this plan requires "[k]eeping high paying jobs in California by providing overtime exemptions and allowing more flexible work schedules to increase productivity; and " [c]larifying meal and rest periods to save businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation costs and create less confusion from meal break violations which will mean fewer terminations."
Provide Overtime Exemptions: Exempt employees in executive, sales, administrative, and professional jobs who earn more than $100,000 annually from overtime pay.
· Save approximately $90 million per year in employee classification costs.
Allow More Flexible Work Schedules: Allow employees to work more flexible hours upon request, such as 10 hour work days for a 40 hour work without being paid overtime.
· Reduce absenteeism and boost productivity, which save employers real dollars.
· Raise employee retention rates, which will reduce claims on the Unemployment Insurance trust fund.
Clarify Meal And Rest Period Laws: Clarify existing law regarding meal and rest periods to provide employers and employees with a clear understanding of meal breaks and offering flexibility to both businesses and workers.
· Will save businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in litigation costs.
· Less confusion means fewer terminations over meal break violations and a more welcoming work environment.
Full details of the governor's plan have not been released.
Brinker International simply announced it as a "Favorable Ruling From California Court of Appeal"
The UCL Practitioner quoted from the Recorder: "Workers Can't Catch a Break from Calif. Court"
and then published this analysis: REST BREAK AND MEAL PERIOD CLAIMS AFTER MURPHY V. KENNETH COLE PRODUCTIONS.
Cal Labor Law blogged about "Brinker Court Favorably Resolves Dispute on "Providing" Meal Breaks"
The Complex Litigator had Meal break class actions dealt major blow in Brinker Restaurant Corporation, et al. v. Hohnbaum, et al.
The Retail Law Observer had a post titled after the case name.
Mofo was quiet, for obvious reasons. They said what they had to say in a lunch seminar.
Nixon Peabody published this pdf: A major break for California employers: Court rules on longstanding meal and rest period issues.
If we didn't include your blog or firm alert on this list, you need to read up on Google's search algorithms.
DLSE Withdraws July 2008 "Brinker Memo"
The DLSE memo issued July 22, 2008 July 25, 2008, by Angela Bradstreet, Denise Padres, and Robert Roginson has been withdrawn. A new memo, dated October 23, 2008, provides: "Effective immediately, neither the [Brinker] Court of Appeal decision nor the memo may be relied upon by any DLSE staff in deciding pending or future matters." However, in the same document, Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet essentially tells the staff to keep following the reasoning in Brinker, even though the Supreme Court’s grant of review supersedes the Court of Appeal’s decision, and the Court of Appeal decision may not be cited or relied on by a court or a party in any other action. (California Rules of Court 8.1105(e) and 8.1115(a)).
"Until such time that the Supreme Court provides guidance on this fundamental question, the Division will rely upon the language of the statute and wage order as well as existing California Supreme Court and Court of Appeal decisions and other recent, persuasive federal court decisions in interpreting Labor Code section 512 and the meal period provisions set forth in the applicable wage orders. Taken together, the language of the statute and the regulation, and the cases interpreting them demonstrates compelling support for the position that employers must provide meal periods to employees but do not have an additional obligation to ensure that such meal periods are actually taken."
The memo instructs employees to follow Brown v. Federal Express Corporation(C.D.Cal. 2008) 249 F.R.D. 580, 585, and to disregard the only binding precedent in California, Cicairos v Summit Logistics, Inc. (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 949, 962, because its "interpretation of California’s meal period requirements is not compelling."
Except as required in Labor Code § 512(a) and Section 11(B) of those wage orders requiring a second meal period, there is no obligation for employers to provide additional meal periods during the course of the workday, including instances in which employees work for a period of more than five hours of work between meal periods.
The memo concludes with the instruction that "any wage claim filed with DLSE that has a meal period issue is reviewed by your Senior Deputy prior to making any final determination on its merits." To us, this sounds a lot like an underground regulation adopted without complying with APA requirements. More importantly, many low-income workers who rely upon DLSE enforcement of their complaint will suffer in the next 18-24 months as we wait for the Supreme Court to decide Brinker.
Petition for review after the Court of Appeal granted a petition for peremptory writ of mandate. This case presents issues concerning the proper interpretation of California's statutes and regulations governing an employer's duty to provide meal and rest breaks to hourly workers.
NOTE: The statement of the issues is intended simply to inform the public and the press of the general subject matter of the case. The description set out above does not necessarily reflect the view of the court, or define the specific issues that will be addressed by the court.
It looks like anything and everything in the briefs is up for discussion.
The Supreme Court granted review today in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25. Justice Werdegar was absent for this week's conference. The vote among the participating justices was 6-0 in favor of review.
10/22/2008 Petition for review granted (civil case) Werdegar, J., was absent and did not participate. Votes: George, C.J., Kennard, Baxter, Chin, Moreno, and Corrigan, JJ.
With Brinker and Cicairos presenting such starkly contrasting views on California law, with Brinker presenting so many novel ideas regarding wage and hour claims and class actions, and with so many U.S. District Court cases disagreeing with Cicairos and each other, this case looks like an outstanding candidate for Supreme Court review.
Judging from past performance under the Schwarzenegger administration, which is undoubtedly disappointed by today's decision, the DLSE enforcement memo, on the need to change policies because of Brinker, will probably stay in place until and unless a court invalidates it.
The petition for review is fully briefed in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court (2008) 165 Cal.App.4th 25. Within three weeks, the court will grant review, deny review or issue an order extending their time to decide. So far, there are a dozen letters on file urging the court to review the case, including one from the California State Legislature and the Attorney General. If review is denied, there will be a lot of discussion about this case in your year-in-review seminars concerning employment litigation, wage and hour law and class action procedures. If review is granted, this will be the most highly anticipated wage and hour case since Gentry v. Superior Court (Circuit City Stores) (2007) 42 Cal.4th 443.
Angie Wei, the Legislative Director for the California Labor Federation, wrote a letter to Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet asking her to withdraw her one-sided July 25, 2008 Memorandum to DLSE Staff, regarding Brinker Restaurant Corp. v Superior Court of San Diego County (Hohnbaum) (2008) __ Cal App. 4th ___, 2008 WL 2806613. The letter is well written, and is must-read material for anyone unfortunate enough to be preparing for a Berman hearing on a meal period or rest period case right now. Unfortunately, we suspect that Ms. Bradstreet is taking orders from someone who makes sure that important decisions get the "green light" from lobbyists for the California Chamber of Commerce and/or the California Restaurant Association, so we would be surprised if the memorandum is withdrawn, even if the Supreme Court grants review of the Brinker case.
The Recorder had a blurb last week on its Ad Hominem (Opinion and Satire) page that overstated Brinker's effect dramatically. Under the "Bar-ometer", it reported that "A court says you can only file wage and hour cases on an individual basis. And no lawyer will take those cases." That's not a very accurate summation of the holding, and the claim that no lawyer will take those cases is quite untrue. Individual wage and hour cases are filed every day.
The Next Big Meal Period Opinion?
If you have been following the recent opinions concerning meal period and rest period class actions, you might also want to follow the progress in Savaglio v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the largest such case yet tried in California. The appeal is fully briefed, and the First Appellate District has granted numerous requests for leave to file amicus briefs, which were filed on July 21, 2008. Today is the last day the court will entertain applications to file an amicus/amici curiae brief.
The following applications for permission to file an amicus/amici curiae brief in support of plaintiffs/respondents/cross-appellants Andrea Savaglio et al. are granted: (1) Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California et al., (2) La Raza Centro Legal and Equal Rights Advocates, (3), California Employment Lawyers Association, and (4) Alameda County Central Labor Council et al. The following applications for permission to file an amicus/amici curiae brief in support of defendants/appellants/cross-respondents Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et al. are granted: (1) Employers Group et al., (2) Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, (3) Retail Industry Leaders Association, (4) California Employment Law Council, and (5) Civil Justice Association of California. The clerk of this court is directed to concurrently file this order and the proffered briefs. Any further applications to file an amicus/amici curiae brief must be filed no later than August 1, 2008.
An oral argument waiver notice went out on Tuesday. We doubt that the litigants will be waiving oral argument in this case. We previously discussed the case in several posts, which can be found here, here, here and here.
The Supreme Court today denied the petition for review in Bufil v. Dollar Financial Group, Inc. (2008) 162 Cal.App.4th 1193, an opinion regarding meal period and rest period claims and class certification. Bufil followed Cicairos v. Summit Logistics, Inc. (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 949, and contained several passages that are difficult to reconcile with last week's opinion in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court of San Diego County (Hohnbaum) (2008) ___ Cal.App.4th ___. We previously discussed the case in a post that can be found at this link.
On July 22, 2008, the California Court of Appeal issued its decision in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court of San Diego County (Hohnbaum), (2008) ___ Cal.App.4th ___ , 2008 WL 2806613. The court in Brinker decided several significant issues regarding the interpretation of California’s meal and rest period requirements. The decision is a published decision, and its rulings are therefore binding upon the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE).
• The court held that Labor Code § 512 and the meal period requirements set forth in the applicable wage order mean that employers must provide meal periods by making them available, but need not ensure that they are taken. Employers, however, cannot impede, discourage or dissuade employees from taking meal periods.
Employers are not required to provide a meal period for every five consecutive hours worked. The court held that the employer’s practice of providing employees with an “early lunch” within the first few hours of an employee’s arrival at work did not violate California law, even though that would mean that the employee might then work in excess of five hours without an additional meal period.
• The court held that the rest period requirements set forth in the applicable wage order mean that employers must provide rest periods, but need not ensure that they are taken. Employers, however, cannot impede, discourage or dissuade employees from taking rest periods.
• The court held that employers need only authorize and permit rest periods every four hours or major fraction thereof and they need not, where impracticable, be in the middle of each work period. The court interpreted the phrase “major fraction thereof” to mean the time period between three and one-half hours and four hours and not to mean that a rest period must be given every three and one-half hours. In so doing, the court rejected as incorrect a 1999 interpretation by the Labor Commissioner that the term “major fraction thereof” means an employer must provide its employees with a 10-minute rest period when the employees work any time over the midpoint of each four hour block of time. The court ruled that the rest periods must be given if an employee works between three and one-half hour and four hours, but if four or more hours are worked, it need be given only every four hours, not every three and one-half hours.
The court also ruled that the applicable wage order rest period provisions do not require employers to authorize and permit a first rest period before the first scheduled meal period. Rather, the applicable language of the wage order states only that rest periods “insofar as practicable shall be in the middle of each work period.” Accordingly, the court concluded, as long as employers make rest periods available to employees, and strive, where practicable, to schedule them in the middle of the first four-hour work period, employers are in compliance with that portion of the applicable wage order.
The court relied upon the plain meaning of the Labor Code and applicable wage order provisions in making its determinations. The court found persuasive the reasoning in the federal district court decisions in White v. Starbucks (ND Cal. July 2, 2007) 497 F.Supp.2d 1080 and Brown v. Federal Express Corp. (CD Cal. Feb. 26, 2008) 2008 WL 906517, and concluded that employers need not ensure meal periods are actually taken, but need only make them available. The court distinguished the decision in Cicairos v. Summit Logistics, Inc. (2006) 133 Cal.App.4th 949, concluding that the facts in Cicairos established that the employer failed to make meal periods available to employees and that the court there only decided meal periods must be provided, not ensured.
All staff must follow the rulings in the Brinker decision effective immediately and the decision shall be applied to pending matters. Please ensure that any wage claim filed with DLSE that has a meal or rest period issue is reviewed by your Senior Deputy prior to making any final determination on its merits.
The DLSE posted copies of the memo, with footnotes omitted above, in both pdf and word format.

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