Jesse Knight v. Motive Energy Telecommunications Group, Inc.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JESSE KNIGHT, Case No.: 5:23-cv-1511-CBM-SPx

Plaintiff, ORDER RE: MOTIVE ENERGY v. TELECOMMUNICATIONS

MOTIVE ENERGY GROUP, INC.’S MOTION TO

TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP, COMPEL ARBITRATION

INC.,

15 Defendant. 16 17 The matter before the Court is Defendant Motive Energy Telecommunications Group, Inc. (“Motive”)’s Motion to Compel Arbitration. (Dkt. No. 39 (“Motion”).) I. BACKGROUND This is a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) filed by Plaintiff Jesse Knight1 on August 1, 2023, for unpaid overtime wages. (Dkt. No. 1 (“Compl.”).) Plaintiff was a non-exempt field worker in Colorado for Motive, a telecommunications company. (Compl., ¶ 8, 10.) Plaintiff alleges that in the three years before filing suit, Motive failed to pay him and “similarly situated field 27 1 Another individual, Anthony Montanez, is…