Cueva

BACKGROUND

1. Complaint and trial Millennium, today known as GT’s Living Foods, manufactures and bottles the beverage kombucha. Plaintiff Cueva testified she worked for Millennium from September 8, 2009 to April 12, 2013. Plaintiff Fuentes, Cueva’s ex-husband, testified he worked for Millennium from September 1, 2009 to around September 11, 2011. Plaintiff Vargas testified she worked for Millennium from April 28, 2011 to February 26, 2013. All were hourly employees. On May 22, 2017, plaintiffs filed a complaint against Millennium asserting causes of action for failure to pay overtime compensation, failure to provide meal and rest periods, failure to provide wage statements, failure to pay minimum wage, failure to pay wages upon termination of employment, failure to provide adequate seating, and unfair competition.1 Plaintiffs later dismissed the cause of action for failure to provide adequate seating. The court conducted an eight-day bench trial. The three plaintiffs testified, and also called as witnesses their former coworker Alma Mateos, expert witness Erik Lietzow, and Millennium’s founder and chief executive officer George Thomas “G.T.” Dave. Millennium called as…