Walton

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division JASON WALTON, Case No. 24-cv-03658-LB

Plaintiff, ORDER COMPELLING INDIVIDUAL

ARBITRATION AND GRANTING

v. DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS

C. OVERAA & CO., Re: ECF No. 12 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION In this putative wage-and-hours class action filed in state court and removed to federal court, the plaintiff sued his former employer C. Overaa & Co., asserting state-law wage-and-hours claims, including a failure to pay minimum and overtime wages and provide rest and meal breaks. He also asserts a derivative unfair-competition (UCL) claim and a claim under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).1 The parties are subject to a collective-bargaining agreement (CBA), which requires individual arbitration of the wage-and-hours claims and precludes PAGA claims under a carve-out in the California Labor Code for employees in the…