The court conditionally certified a federal Fair Labor Standards Act collective action by City of San Diego firefighters who claim the City miscalculated their overtime by leaving a $500 paramedic-certification bonus out of their regular rate of pay, and approved a joint notification plan with adjus
The court issued a limited stay of a federal misclassification class action against Assurance IQ and Prudential pending a preliminary settlement approval ruling in an earlier-filed and substantially similar state-court class action whose proposed class includes the federal plaintiff.
After previously certifying a class of California bus driver/operator employees of Transdev for wage-and-hour claims, the court reversed course and decertified the class in light of multiple overlapping earlier-filed state-court class actions, then stayed the case to allow those proceedings to advan
The court remanded a Private Attorneys General Act case against Southwest Airlines to state court because the airline failed to plausibly show more than $75,000 was at stake when the plaintiff’s individual share of attorney’s fees and PAGA penalties were properly calculated.
The court compelled arbitration of a former CVS employee’s discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage claims, ruling that CVS met its burden of authenticating her electronic signature on a 2017 arbitration agreement and that her bare assertion that her supervisor logged in and signed fo