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Article: Federal law doesn't preempt state law wage claims, 9th Circuit rules
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- Lawyers USA
- Article date:
- July 16, 2007
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Union employees' state law claims seeking compensation for travel
time between employer meeting sites and construction sites were not
preempted by the Labor Management Relations Act, the 9th Circuit has
ruled.
The plaintiffs claimed the defendant prohibited employees working
on projects involving installation of fiber optic lines from
reporting directly to their daily jobsites, instead having them
report to meeting sites where they were briefed on each day's tasks.
After each day's meetings, employees were transported to jobsites
in employer vehicles. They were returned in the same vehicles to the
meeting sites after each day's work. This daily commute consumed up