Local 246 Utility Workers Union Of America v. Southern California Edison Company

83 F.3d 292 64 USLW 2764 , 131 Lab.Cas. P 33,393 , 3 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 449 , 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 3152 , 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5206 LOCAL 246 UTILITY WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA; Local 47 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Cyril Douglas Payne; Walter R. Pierce, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. No. 94-56051. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Nov. 13, 1995. Decided May 6, 1996. Anthony R. Segall, Pasadena, California, for plaintiffs-appellants. Kenneth E. Johnson, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; J. Spencer Letts, District Judge, Presiding. Before: FLETCHER, CANBY, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges. CANBY, Circuit Judge: I. 1 Two employees, joined by their unions, brought this action against their employer, Southern California Edison Company, alleging that Edison's method of calculating overtime compensation for partially disabled workers violates the Fair Labor Standards Act ("Act" or "FLSA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-19 . The question at issue is whether certain supplemental…