—the term `wages' should be deemed to include not only the periodic monetary earnings of the employee but also the other benefits to which he [or she] is entitled as part of his [or her] compensation

—holding that a wrongfully terminated employee could recover the replacement cost of lost life insurance and medical plans

The Supreme Court explained, "[T] he evidence shows that during a portion of that time plaintiff was holding down both a full-time regular job, and a second, temporary, part-time job; that the excess earnings were brought about by the part-time work; and that the latter was work which plaintiff could also have performed while he was employed by defendant. Accordingly …

—the defendant in a wrongful discharge case argued that because under its collective bargaining agreement it was only required to pay an unfairly dismissed employee his lost "wages," the plaintiff should not have been provided a recovery which included the cost of replacing his fringe benefits.

—comparison between life insurance and medical plans in which discharged railroad employee participated in his subsequent employment and for which he was paying $17.70 per month at time of trial, on one hand, and medical

It is true that "the measure of damages for breach of contract is `the amount which will compensate the party aggrieved for all the detriment proximately caused thereby....'(Civ. Code, § 3300

The Wise court rejected a defendant employer's argument that it was entitled to an additional mitigation offset when the former employee received more from his new employment than he would have been paid by defendant

Even if Smith Barney paid Schachter shares of restricted stock in lieu of cash compensation (rather than using Schachter's cash compensation, when paid, to acquire the shares), those shares were not given as instruments of indebtedness of compensation; to the contrary, they were the compensation

[BOOK] Contract Doctrine, Theory and Practice

[CITATION] Labor and Employment in California: A Guide to Employment Laws, Regulations …