Supreme Court of California

In the context of Labor Code Section 201, which provides that if an employer discharges an employee, wages earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately, the "discharge" element may be met when an employer releases an employee after completion of a specific job assignment or time duration for which the employee was hired, and does not require an involuntary termination from an ongoing employment relationship.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2006
• Published 07/10/2006

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven S. Elster;  Glancy, Binkow & Goldberg, Lionel Z. Glancy, Kevin F. Ruf, Avi Wagner, Los Angeles;  Cyrus & Cyrus, Cyrus Nownejad;  Law Offices of Steven Rubin and Steven Rubin, Beverly Hills, for Petitioner., Rukin Hyland Doria & DuFrane and Peter Rukin, San Francisco, for California Employment Lawyers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Ivey, Smith & Ramirez, Jean-Claude André;  Becky Lyn Monroe and Kevin Richard Kish for Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, La Raza Centro Legal and Stanford Community Law Clinic as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Steven S. Elster for Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., H. Thomas Cadell, Jr., San Diego, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Cynthia L. Rice and Julia Montgomery for California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, Maintenance Cooperative Trust Fund, Legal Aid Society of Los Angeles, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center and Asian Law Caucus, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner., Morgenstein & Jubelirer, William J. Carroll, Bruce A. Wagman and Bita A. Karabian, San Francisco, for Real Party in Interest., Sefarth Shaw, Kenneth D. Sulzer and Thomas R. Kaufman, Los Angeles, for American Staffing Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest., Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp and Lawrence A. Michaels, Los Angeles, for The Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Rex S. Henke and Jessica M. Weisel, Los Angeles, for New Avalon, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.