MORILLION v. ROYAL PACKING CO.

No. S073725.

94 Cal.Rptr.2d 3 (2000)

22 Cal.4th 575

995 P.2d 139

Jose M. MORILLION et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. ROYAL PACKING COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

As Modified May 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, David A. Rosenfeld and Amy D. Martin, Oakland, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Miles E. Locker, San Francisco, and William A. Reich, Ventura, for California Labor Commissioner as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Cynthia L. Rice, Santa Rosa, for Antonio Madrigal as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Saperstein, Goldstein, Demchak & Bailer, David Borgen, Aaron Kaufmann and Laura L. Ho, Oakland, for Asian Law Caucus, Inc., East San Jose Community Law Center, Employment Law Center — A Project of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, La Raza Centro Legal, Inc., and Women's Employment Rights Clinic — Golden Gate University School of Law as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Marcos Camacho, Keene; Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, Stephen P. Berzon and Scott A. Kronland, San Francisco, for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Rynn & Janowsky, Lewis P. Janowsky, Newport Beach, and Bart M. Botta, for Defendant and Respondent.

Nancy N. McDonough, Sacramento, and Carl G. Borden, for California Farm Bureau Federation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

James W. Bogart, for Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association of Central California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Sheppard, Muffin, Richter & Hampton, Richard J. Simmons, Los Angeles, and Jason R. Gasper, for the Employers Group as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


CHIN, J.

The general question presented in this case is whether an employer that requires its employees to travel to a work site on its buses must compensate the employees for their time spent traveling on those buses. Specifically, we must decide whether the time agricultural employees spend traveling to and from the fields on employer-provided buses is compensable as "hours worked" under Industrial Welfare Commission wage order No. 14-80 (Wage Order No. 14-80; found...

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