United States Ninth Circuit

Employees of an electric utility who reside on their employer's remote premises entered a reasonable agreement effectively treating the formally uncompensated 18-hour duty shift on-call time as equivalent to four hours' actual work. Using this formula, the district court must tabulate how many hours the employees actually worked in order to determine any entitlement to overtime compensation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/04/2003
• Decided 02/03/2004
• Published 02/03/2004

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge., Before O'SCANNLAIN, FERNANDEZ, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David C. Force, Eugene, OR, filed briefs for the appellants and argued the cause on their behalf.


• For Appellees:
  
• Linda J. Kessel, Harrang, Long, Gary, Rudnick, Eugene, OR, filed briefs for the appellee.  James E. Mountain, Jr., argued the cause on their behalf.