I know that if you report to work and your employer sends you home before you've worked half of your scheduled shift you are entitled to reporting time pay. My question is what if they call you 10 minutes before your shift starts and tell you not to come in for your scheduled shift? My daughter's manager did that to her today. She was already in the parking lot at the mall when they called (she leaves home 45 minutes before the start of her shift.) Is that considered reasonable notice? I called her manager and he said he's never heard of reporting time pay and they do that all the time.

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Sorry, but there is no mention in the Wage Order of "reasonable" notice. It's certainly poor management, but if she worked 5 minutes from home, she still would be in the garage. :) Here's the Wage Order; you can read it yourself (Section 5):
http://www.dir.ca.gov/IWC/IWCArticle4.pdf

Thanks,

I do see that now that I read it for myself. I got the resonable notice from the ca.gov web site it actually calls it "lack of proper notice". I'm not sure why it's on the web site that way.

"To guarantee at least partial compensation for employees who report to their job expecting to work a specified number of hours and who are deprived of that amount of work because of inadequate scheduling or lack of proper notice by the employer, the Industrial Welfare Commission Orders require that employers pay nonexempt employees, in addition to the hours the employee actually works, for certain unworked but regularly scheduled time"

Unfortunately it looks like I stirred things up with her manager for nothing. Hopefully they won't continue to do that because she regularly arrives 10 minutes before her shift so even if she did live 5 minutes away she still would have been there when she got the call.

Again thanks for the info.

Well, maybe it's a matter of degree that is applied irrespective of the wage order on a case-by-case basis.