Quiroz

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellants appeal from an order of the trial court granting respondent‟s attorneys over $141,000 in attorney fees for their successful representation of him in an action he brought against the appellants for unpaid overtime and wages, their failure to make timely payment of wages or meal time breaks to him, and for violating Business and Professions Code section 17200. We find no abuse of discretion in the trial court‟s award and thus affirm it.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Respondent was employed as a household worker by Drs. Braun and Test starting around 1992; those two appellants apparently maintained a common household. In 2000, Dr. Braun founded a business, appellant Emergency University. Respondent worked full time for all three of these appellants starting in 2001; he ceased his work for them in December 2009. Respondent‟s “main job responsibilities included child minding, cooking, running errands, driving and cleaning,” all done primarily from Dr. Braun‟s home; she was also his “supervisor,” assigned him “daily tasks,” and “hired and fired”

1 him. For these various tasks, respondent was paid at the rate of $8.00 per hour by checks “issued from…