Ninth Circuit Holds Certain Commute Time is Compensable Under California Law
In Rutti v. Lojack Corp., 596 F.3d 1046 (9th Cir. 2010), Rutti filed a class action on behalf of all technicians employed by Lojack to install alarms in customer cars. The lawsuit alleged that Lojack unlawfully failed under both federal and California law to compensate him for certain commute time. Specifically, Lojack provided Rutti, who worked from home, a company car and required him to travel