Alcala
Alcala v. Santa Fe Rubber Products CA2/2
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
Elias Alcala, Margarita Benavides, and Celio Jimenez, three employees of SFR, filed a putative class action complaint alleging two causes of action: (1) that SFR violated Labor Code sections 226.7 and 512, subd. (a),1 as well as Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) wage order 1-2001 (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 8, § 11010) by failing to provide employees with 30-minute meal periods (the Labor Code claim), and (2) that the failure to provide lawful meal periods constituted an unfair business practice under Business and Professions Code section 17200, et seq. (the UCL claim). A class of all persons employed at SFR between April 2007 and July 2010 was eventually certified. Evidence presented on motion for summary adjudication Plaintiffs moved for summary adjudication of both the Labor Code and the UCL claims. SFR opposed the motion. Evidence presented in connection with the motion for summary adjudication included the following: Production employees at SFR are represented by the United Steel Workers’ Union (the union). In 1997, all production workers began receiving a 20-minute paid meal
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