{"id":87,"date":"2008-07-27T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-07-28T02:25:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T06:25:02","slug":"starbucks-barista-responsible-for-laundering-own-aprons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2008\/07\/starbucks-barista-responsible-for-laundering-own-aprons\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Barista Responsible for Laundering Own Aprons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">An employee required to launder his work aprons by Starbucks Corporation (\u201cStarbucks\u201d) was not entitled to compensation under California law (<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Douglas O\u2019Connor v. Starbucks Corporation<\/em>, ND Cal, C 06-3706 VRW, July 14, 2008). <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\">Under an explanation of the relevant regulations by the California Industrial Wage Commission, \u201c[e]mployers must maintain or provide a maintenance allowance for uniforms requiring ironing or dry cleaning or uniforms requiring special laundering for heavy soil.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">In granting summary judgment, the court ruled that \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\">Starbucks owes plaintiff a duty to pay such compensation only if the aprons require laundering separate from plaintiff\u2019s regular laundry.\u201d Since O\u2019Connor, a former Starbucks barista, was unable to establish that the aprons required either dry cleaning or laundering separate from other articles as he had maintained, Starbucks owed no duty to compensate him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employee required to launder his work aprons by Starbucks Corporation (\u201cStarbucks\u201d) was not entitled to compensation under California law (Douglas O\u2019Connor v. Starbucks Corporation, ND Cal, C 06-3706 VRW, July 14, 2008). Under an explanation of the relevant regulations by the California Industrial Wage Commission, \u201c[e]mployers must maintain or provide a maintenance allowance for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[141,139,140,138,136,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}