In re Walgreen Co. Overtime Cases

Filed 10/23/14; pub. order 11/13/14 (see end of opn.)

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

In re B230191

(Judicial Council Coordination WALGREEN COMPANY OVERTIME Proceeding No. JCCP 4511)

CASES

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County; Carl J. West, Judge. Order affirmed. Krutcik & Georggin, James A. Krutcik, A. Nicholas Georggin, Joo Hee Kershner, Carmine J. Pearl; Westrup Klick, R. Duane Westrup and Phillip R. Poliner for Plaintiffs and Appellants. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Diana Tabacopoulos, Ann H. Qushair, and James M. Harris for Defendant and Respondent.

_________________________ This class action is about meal breaks at work. Lead plaintiff Darryl Collins charged that Walgreens violated employees’ rights to meal breaks. The trial court denied Collins’s motion for class certification. We affirm. Walgreens is a drug store chain. In a coordinated action, Collins moved for class certification on the theory that Walgreens’s stated policy on meal breaks was proper, but that Walgreens’s actual practice departed from its…