In a precedent-setting ruling for cities across California, a state appeals court this week upheld Hayward's living wage ordinance as constitutional and ordered Cintas Corp., a laundry business that had contracted with the East Bay city, to pay $1.4 million in back wages, interest and penalties to 219 workers... In what is believed to be the first major case of its kind, two laundry workers filed a class-action lawsuit...alleging that...[Cintas] did not pay the required wages under the law in Hayward... The company [argued]…the living wage law was unconstitutional and shouldn't apply to workers outside Hayward... Cintas officials said in a statement Thursday that the court did not find the company had willfully failed to pay the wages. The statement added, "The company respects, and will continue to respect local labor laws wherever it does business." Heather Trainer, a Cintas spokeswoman, said officials had not yet decided whether to appeal...