December 2, 2020
Every Minute Counts - How Making Employees Wait Can Create Employer Liability
In the arena of employment litigation, every minute matters. Attorneys for employees are filing lawsuits over minutes or fractions of a minute and bringing claims for those minutes or fractions of minutes for multiple employees over the course of months or years. The recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Frlekin v. Apple is instructive in showing how employers can accrue liability for the smallest increments of time.