Why should this story be so interesting to company leaders? Rather than first seek advice from a knowledgeable HR professional or labor attorney, it appears the leaders decided to surrender to citizen complaints. After all, these were just garbage-men.
The moral of this story, seek advice from a human resources professional before you make an employment decision that could cost your company millions.
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The Los
Angeles City Council on Tuesday finalized a $26-million legal settlement to end
a lawsuit over a ban on lunchtime naps by trash-truck drivers. The expenditure, approved on a 9-2 vote, resolves a
class-action lawsuit involving nearly 1,100 sanitation workers who said they
were improperly barred from sleeping and engaging in other activities during
their meal breaks.
Sanitation officials had imposed the no-nap rule to avoid the bad
publicity that would come if a resident, business owner or television news crew
stumbled across a sleeping city employee. But lawyers for the drivers said the
city, by limiting workers' mealtime activities, had essentially robbed them of
their meal breaks.
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