Batze v. Safeway, Inc.
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs filed suit against their employer, Safeway, for failure to pay overtime wages. On appeal, plaintiffs argued that the trial court's findings that they spent the majority of their time at work engaged in managerial activities during the four-year period at issue was not supported by substantial evidence. The court rejected this argument, and concluded that the trial court drew reasonable inferences from the witnesses' testimony and other evidence that established how plaintiffs spent the majority of their time. The court also rejected plaintiffs' argument that the trial court improperly found that the strike period constituted an emergency that permitted respondent to assign managerial employees to non-exempt tasks without losing their exempt status. Finally, the court concluded that the trial court reasonably found that the filing of the class action did not toll the statute of limitations. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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