“Amazon faces a heavy burden to show that the workers truly fit within the narrow exemption to overtime pay
that the California Legislature established,” said Jahan Sagafi, a lawyer at Outten & Golden in San Francisco who represents workers in lawsuits against employers, but is not involved in Mr. Ortiz’s case.
In California, the burden of proof is on employers to show
that workers should not receive overtime pay, which they can do by demonstrating that more than half of a manager’s job consisted of managerial responsibilities, labor lawyers said.
In an interview, Mr. Ortiz, 34, said he and other managers had been promised when they were hired
that their jobs would consist mostly of supervisory work.
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