The L.A. Times might not be your best source of legal analysis for wage and hour issues. Yesterday, Molly Selvin, a popular staff writer for the Times, wrote a Q&A column about Monday's Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions case. It included this quip:
"What did Monday's decision settle?
Monday's ruling settled the question of whether nonexempt employees who claim they were denied overtime or meal and rest breaks may ask for up to three years of back pay or only one. The court said three years."
It did settle that question for meal and rest breaks. The time for filing suit on overtime claims has been well settled for many, many, years, however.
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