Cabardo

ORDER

This is a lawsuit asserting claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., and several California wage-and-hour laws. The matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. 1 (ECF No. 44.) Defendants Marilyn Patacsil (“Marilyn”) and Ernesto Patacsil (collectively “Defendants”) oppose the motion. (ECF No. 49.) For the reasons set forth below, Plaintiffs’ motion is GRANTED in part.

I. Background

Plaintiffs are former employees of Pa-tacsil Care Homes, a group of residential care homes owned and operated by Defendants. Plaintiffs were “live-in” caregivers at the homes, which, as the name suggests, means they lived and worked onsite.

The gravamen of Plaintiffs’ complaint is straightforward: they contend that Defendants misclassified them as exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements under both federal and California law. (ECF No. 21 at ¶ 26-28.) Plaintiffs brought a suite of claims in this lawsuit—alleging that Defendants violated several federal and state wage-and-hour laws for conduct like not paying Plaintiffs minimum wage or overtime, not providing meal periods or rest periods, not providing accurate and…