Certification from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in Mariano CARRANZA and Eliseo Martinez, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
DOVEX FRUIT COMPANY, Defendant.
Supreme Court of Washington.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 14, 2017.
Filed May 10, 2018.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Marc Cote , Frank Freed Subit & Thomas LLP, 705 2nd Ave. Ste. 1200, Seattle, WA, 98104-1798, Toby James Marshall , Terrell Marshall Law Group PLLC, 936 N 34th St. Ste. 300, Seattle, WA, 98103-8869 for Plaintiffs.
Mario Martinez , PO Box 1998, Bakersfield, CA, 93303, Matthew Hyrum Adams , NW Immigrants Rights Project, 615 2nd Ave. Ste. 400, Seattle, WA, 98104-2244 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of United Farm Workers of America, Migrant Clinicians Network.
Julian Hua Beattie , Washington State Office of the Attorney, PO Box 40117, Olympia, WA, 98504-0117, Solicitor General Division Attorney General, Attorney at Law, 1125 Washington Street, PO Box 40100, Olympia, WA, 98504-0100 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Attorney General.
Andrea L. Schmitt , Columbia Legal Services, 711 Capitol Way S Ste. 304, Olympia, WA, 98501-1233, Joachim Morrison , Attorney at Law, 300 Okanogan Ave. Ste. 2a, Wenatchee, WA, 98801-6940 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Familias Unidas Por Law Justicia.
Rebecca A. Smith , National Employment Law Project, 317 17th Ave. S, Seattle, WA, 98144-2147 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of National Employment.
Bruce Goldstein , 1126 16th Street Nw #270, Washington, DC, 20037 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Farmworker Justice.
Sarah Lynn Clarke Wixson , Brendan V. Monahan , Stokes Lawrence Velikanje Moore & Shore, 120 N. Naches Ave., Yakima, WA, 98901-2757 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington State Tree Fruit Association.
David N. Mark , Washington Wage Claim Project, 810 3rd Ave. Ste. 500, Seattle, WA, 98104-1619 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Wage Claim Project.
Jeffrey Lowell Needle , Attorney at Law, 705 2nd Ave. Ste. 1050 Seattle, WA, 98104-1759 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Employment Lawyers Association.
Philip Albert Talmadge , Talmadge/Fitzpatrick/Tribe, 2775 Harbor Ave. Sw, Third Floor Ste. C, Seattle, WA, 98126-2138 for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Antonio Maldonado, Jr., Johnny Duarte, Del Feigel, Faustino Barrios, Natividad Rubio, Felipe Maldonado, Cristian Torres, Geronimo Carrillo, Refugio Carrillo, Pedro Garduno, Raymundo Garduno, Natalie Garduno, Mario Martinez, Leobardo Cardenas, Julio Mareno, Jose Dominguez, Miguel Meza, Nicanor Silva, Aaron Hernandez, Washington Trucking Association.
YU, J.
¶ 1 The Washington Minimum Wage Act (MWA), chapter 49.46 RCW, requires employers to compensate employees for their work. This case asks us to apply that general principle to the specific context of agricultural workers who are paid on a piece-rate basis for piece-rate picking work by answering the following two questions, which were...
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