9th Circuit: Accrued Vacation Owed When Hotel Announced Pandemic Temporary Layoff

(October 12, 2023, 8:01 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A hotel chain owed workers accrued vacation pay when it temporarily laid them off at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as that was “a discharge that triggers the prompt payments provision of” California Labor Code Section 201, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled, partially reversing a trial court’s summary judgment ruling for Hyatt Corp....