California Court of Appeal

In a case brought by a deputy probation officer employed by defendant-county alleging violation of various provisions of the Labor Code and Wage Orders by failing to provide deputy probation officers with meal periods and pay for missed meal periods, defendant-county's demurrer is affirmed where: 1) defendant has exclusive authority, as a charter county, to provide for the compensation and conditions of employment of its employees, and has done so with respect to probation officers through a collective bargaining agreement adopted by resolution; and 2) county is thus exempt from state statutes and regulations governing meal breaks.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/16/2008
• Published 09/16/2008

Judges

• WILLHITE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Jones;  Gould & Associates, Michael A. Gould and Aarin A. Zeif, Tustin, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jones Day, Matthew M. Yu, Erica L. Reilley and Deborah C. Saxe, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent.