Arizona Supreme Court
Clinton Roberts v. State of Arizona
July 8, 202274 Arizona Cases Digest 11
Summary
The court held that Arizona's overtime statute does not incorporate the federal Portal-to-Portal Act or its definition of compensable work. It further held that the state personnel agency lacked legislative authorization to incorporate that federal law by regulation, making the regulations nonbinding on the officers' overtime claims. The court vacated the intermediate appellate decision, reversed dismissal of the complaint, and remanded for the trial court to decide compensability under state law.