I suspended an employee and now I want to terminate her. If she comes in and is terminated during a brief meeting, how much reporting time pay do I owe her for that meeting?

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 new 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.