Baker Castor Oil Co. v. Insurance Co.

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• holding that an agreed-upon salary for agreed-upon hours does not include a statutory overtime premium unless the employer proves that the parties explicitly agreed that it would
• noting that an employer “who wishes no such work to be done has a duty to see it is not performed” and it “cannot accept the benefits without including the extra hours in the employee’s weekly total for purposes of overtime compensation”
• with the employer’s knowledge, the employee was never relieved for a meal break and always had to eat her meal while she worked
• the employer’s obligation to pay premium overtime compensation is statutory and cannot be waived
• with the employer’s knowledge, the employee was never relieved for a meal break and always had to eat her meal while she worked
• \The employer who wishes no such work to 6 be done has a duty to see it is not performed.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).