Well, sort of...in a recent California court decision, See's Candy Shops, Inc. v. Superior Court, the court ruled that applying federal employment law in time rounding to employee's hours by employers is okay as long as it is neutral. Lawyers representing See's established that they round up as much as they round down. See's civil lawyers had an expert witness, a labor economist and statistician, analyze the employee data and Dr. Ali Saad concluded a statistical average on time rounding did not benefit either the employee or employer.
The civil attorneys, representing the plaintiff, also had an expert witness who had not separated out the grace period time in his calculations. See's grace period allowed employees to clock in early. See's civil lawyers affirmed it was company policy that employees were allowed to clock in early but were not required to work and if they did were required to alert their supervisor for appropriate time adjustments to be applied to their wages. Attorneys representing the employee class action claimed See's owed the employees $1.4 million dollars however they failed in taking account company policy on grace periods.
This employment law case clearly illustrates that without the proper direction of a lawyer, even the best expert can slip a case and cause the whole case to err and lose.
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