JMOL Entered For Jack In The Box On Unpaid Meal Break Claim

(August 10, 2023, 8:15 AM EDT) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon entered judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) for Jack in the Box Inc. on meal break claims and struck lost meal break wages and meal break penalty wages awarded as part of an October 2022 verdict to a class of workers bringing various wage-and-hour claims, finding that before June 1, 2010, Oregon law required employees to be paid only for the time spent working when a 30-minute meal break was cut short....