Rockin Around the Clock: California Appellate Court Issues Favorable Ruling for Employers On Rounding Employee Time Entries

We previously reported that a San Diego Superior Court found See's Candy Shops violated California law by rounding employee time entries to the nearest-tenth of an hour, and that the California Supreme Court ordered the Fourth District Court of Appeal to review the case and decide the rounding issue. On Monday, the Court of Appeal decided the issue of first impression in a published decision and held that “the rule in California is that an employer is entitled to use the nearest-tenth rounding policy if the rounding policy is fair and neutral on its face and ‘it is used in such a manner that it will not result, over a period of time, in failure to compensate the employees properly for all the time they have actually worked.” This comes as great news to thousands of employers across California who utilize similar neutral rounding policies.   

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