If I know I'm going to suspend or terminate an employee, should I have the employee report to work anyway?

Employees who report to work and are given less than their usual or scheduled day’s shift normally are entitled to reporting time pay equal to half of their usual or scheduled day’s shift, with a minimum of two hours and a maximum of four hours required.

A California Court of Appeal case, Price v. Starbucks, clarifies how this rule applies when an employee is called in for a meeting where she is to be terminated. According to this new decision, the amount of reporting time pay owed will depend on whether the employee was scheduled to work that day or whether she was called in for a termination meeting on a day she was not scheduled to work.