Liday v. Sim
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Plaintiff filed suit against her former employers for unpaid wages as a live-in caretaker for her employers' children. In 2014, the Legislature passed the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (DWBR) to provide personal attendants with overtime protection beginning January 1, 2014.
The Court of Appeal held that, because personal attendants were exempt from overtime requirements before 2014, California law in effect at the time did not limit the number of hours a personal attendant's salary could cover, except to require that it pay at least the minimum wage of $8 per hour for each hour worked. In this case, the parties did not dispute the trial court's finding that they did not agree to an hourly rate, and nothing in the record demonstrates they agreed plaintiff would work a set number of hours per week. Therefore, the court held that the trial court erred when it presumed plaintiff's monthly salary compensated her for only 45 hours of work per week. Accordingly, the court reversed and remanded for recalculation of the unpaid wages plaintiff was owed for work she performed from April 2010 through December 2013 applying an $8 per hour rate of pay for each hour she worked.
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