Medrano

AMENDED ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO DEFENDANT’S LIABILITY

Plaintiffs move for partial summary judgment as to the liability of Defendant in this class action lawsuit. The Court has read and considered the briefing and evidence submitted by the parties and has considered the oral arguments of counsel. For the reasons set forth below, the motion will be granted.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs, current and former employees of Defendant D’Arrigo Brothers Company of California (“D’Arrigo”), are agricultural workers. D’Arrigo is engaged in the business of planting, harvesting, grading, packaging, packing, and processing vegetables. Plaintiffs allege that between 1996 and 2000, D’Arrigo neither recorded nor compensated- them for all hours worked — in particular, hours that D’Arrigo required Plaintiffs to spend waiting and traveling to and from fields pursuant to D’Arrigo’s mandatory work transportation policy. Pursuant to this policy, D’Arrigo required Plaintiffs to report to a designated departure point — the Spreckels Parking Lot— and to board buses operated by D’Arrigo. The buses then transported the workers to various work sites. Plaintiffs were…