Employers must pay all nonexempt employees for all hours worked, including mandatory meetings. Even if the meetings occur outside of normal scheduled work hours or outside of the employer’s normal business hours. For example, if a nonexempt employee worked 8 hours in a workday during normal scheduled work hours and the employer holds a one-hour meeting after that which the employee attends, then the employee would be entitled to one hour overtime.
Employers must identify some specific exemption for paying an employee at least minimum wage for all hours worked. Training and meetings are considered part of all hours worked and therefore hours spent performing those tasks must be paid.
Price v. Starbucks Corp. (2011) 192 Cal.App.4th 1136