Driver Claims CRST Expedited Owes Unpaid Wages for Rest Breaks

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A proposed class action out of California seeks to recover more than $25,000 in damages resulting from defendant CRST Expedited, Inc.’s alleged violations of California labor law. The plaintiff, who worked for the defendant as a driver paid at a mileage rate, claims the company failed in its obligation to provide members of the proposed class with one 10-minute, duty-free rest period for at least every three-and-a-half hours worked. According to the plaintiff, drivers were often unable to take uninterrupted rest breaks, for which the defendant then should have paid premium compensation. 

“As a pattern and practice, [the plaintiff] and class members regularly worked shifts of 3.5 hours or more per day and accordingly had a right to take a paid 10-minute duty-free rest period each day worked in any such shifts. However, given that [the plaintiff] and class members were compensated on a mileage-rate basis, they were not provided with ‘paid’ rest breaks.”