Barriga

INTRODUCTION

This is an appeal of a postjudgment order enforcing a settlement agreement. The underlying lawsuit is a wage and hour class and representative action seeking damages for a putative class of non-exempt employees who worked shifts that entitled them to overtime as well as meal and rest breaks. After conducting informal discovery and attending an early mediation, the parties entered a settlement agreement. The trial court preliminarily approved the settlement, provisionally certified the settlement class defined in the settlement agreement, confirmed Alma Barriga (the named plaintiff) as the settlement class representative, and directed the settlement administrator to serve notice to settlement class members. Under the settlement agreement, Ducommun Incorporated and Ducommun Aerostructures, Inc. (defendants and sometimes Ducommun) were required to provide information about the settlement class members to the settlement administrator. After the settlement administrator received information from defendants, notices were served, no objections or opt-outs were received in response, and the trial court granted final approval of the settlement and entered judgment. In the…