Current and former Brinker Restaurant, Chili's, Ramono's, Macaroni Grill and On the Border hourly employees in California are eligible to participate in a California Class Action for missed meal periods and rest periods.

Are you a current or former Brinker Restaurant California employee? If you are an hourly Brinker employee in California, then you are most likely eligible to receive money damages in the Brinker California Wage and Hour Class Action lawsuit


Brinker / Chili’s California wage and hour class action

The Turley Law Firm, along with co-counsel, have a wage and hour class action filed for all Brinker, Brinker International Restaurants, Chili's, Romano’s, Macaroni Grill and On the Border Mexican Grill hourly employees in California. There are over 100,000 current and former California employees who are eligible for inclusion in the class action.

The case is currently before the California Supreme Court. The Brinker case is widely considered to be the largest employment rights case before the California Supreme Court. There have been numerous Amicus briefs filed by both employee groups and business interests.

Bill Turley San Diego Wage and Hour Lawyer


What is Brinker Doing wrong in California?

There are several key allegations in the case. First, Brinker California employees do not receive mandated meal periods. Employers must relieve workers of all duty to take meal breaks or pay premium wages imposed by statute. Second, Brinker has attempted to have workers illegally "waive" meal periods. However, employees cannot waive meal periods without meeting the Wage Order’s specific waiver requirements.

Brinker has tried to spin the argument that employers must "force" an employee to take a meal period. The Plaintiffs in Brinker are not trying to suggest that an employer is required to "force" an employee to take a meal period. For whatever reason the employee does not take a meal period, the Labor Code makes it clear that the employee must be paid for the time worked.

The employer is in charge of the work place. If the employee does not take a meal period, the Labor Code has a simple remedy. The employer pays one hour for each one-half hour meal break missed.

This is the bottom line. Brinker and other employers want free labor. They want a system whereby they can "game" the system. That is, have employees work through meal periods and not have to compensate them for actual time worked. No one is being "forced" to do any thing. Employees just want to be paid for services rendered.

There are very solid public policy reasons behind the California Wage Orders. Do you want the cook that cooks your next meal to be so tired from working 7 hours in a row, without a break, to use the same knife and cutting board for cutting lettuce that they also used to cut raw chicken?

Do you want the employee driving a huge garbage truck to be tired from having to drive 7 hours in a row without a meal period? There are very, very solid public policy reasons that support California’s Wage Orders. These Wage Orders don’t just protect the employees. These California Wage Orders are intended to protect your family and my family.



Are you a current or former Brinker California hourly employee?


If you are a current or former Brinker, Brinker International Restaurants, Romano’s, and/or or Macaroni Grill and On the Border Mexican Grill California hourly employee; we would like your help. We would like to speak to you about your experience with meal periods and rest periods.


We need your help


We need your help. If successful, all of the hourly Brinker employees stand to gain significant amounts of money. But we need your help in investigating and proving the case.

You may speak to us confidentially if you wish. Please contact our office at Attorney David Mara at dmara@turleylawfirm.com.

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