California law requires every hour worked to be paid at minimum wage or above. A number of California federal district courts and California Courts of Appeal held that a corollary to this law was that employers cannot meet minimum wage requirements by dividing an employee’s total compensation by his or her total hours, i.e., the minimum wage cannot be met by “averaging.”
For piece-rate compensation in the trucking industry, this has meant that every task must be paid separately such that, regardless of how much a driver earned by driving in a particular hour, any non-driving tasks performed in that same hour had to be paid separately or the carrier would risk being hit with a class action for violating California’s minimum-wage laws.
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