Cook

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALICE COOK, Case No. 23-cv-05690-PCP

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

v. MOTION TO DISMISS AND

REMANDING UCL CLAIM

MATRIX ABSENCE MANAGEMENT, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 13 11 Defendant.

12 Plaintiff Alice Cook brings this action against her employer, Matrix Absence Management, Inc. She asserts several California Labor Code and Unfair Competition Law (UCL) claims based on her alleged misclassification as an exempt employee. For the reasons set forth below, Matrix’s motion to dismiss is granted in part and denied in part, and the UCL claim is remanded. I. Background The following allegations from the complaint are taken as true in deciding this motion. Matrix administers disability and leave of absence claims for its employer clients. Ms. Cook began working as a claims examiner for Matrix in 2014. This job involved reviewing disability and leave of absence claims to determine whether claimants were…