Sali v. Corona Regional: “Compensable Time” and Considering Inadmissible Evidence at Class Cert.

On May 3, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in Sali, et al. v. Corona Regional Medical Center, et al., 889 F.3d 623, 629 (9th Cir. 2018) (slip op. available here), a wage-and-hour class action, reversing the district court’s denial of class certification on several grounds. The Ninth Circuit found that the plaintiffs’ evidence of typicality, while not admissible at trial, should be considered for the purposes of class certification. Significantly, in reversing the denial of class certification, the panel found that the district court erred in interpreting compensable time as limited to time spent actually working. The ruling reaffirms that compensable time is both the time when an employee is under the control of the employer, regardless of whether or not the employee is engaged in work activities, as well as the time when an employee is “suffered or permitted to work, whether or not required to do so.” Slip op. at…

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