Salon

BACKGROUND

Salon worked for defendants as a call center representative from September 2017 to February 2018. During that time, he claims defendants failed to provide their employees with meal and rest periods, among other things. In April 2019, Salon filed an action against defendants, alleging class claims for failure to provide meal periods, failure to provide rest periods, failure to pay hourly and overtime wages, failure to provide accurate wage statements, failure to timely pay all final wages, and unfair competition.

1 Salon also sought civil penalties under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) (Lab. Code, § 2698 et seq.) relative to each of the alleged Labor Code violations on behalf of himself and other current and former aggrieved employees. In June 2022, Salon filed a motion for class certification. In the motion, he stated the claim for PAGA penalties “need not be certified and will be pursued regardless of whether a class is certified.” The trial court denied the motion for class certification in its entirety on the basis Salon’s claims were not conducive to class treatment. The court found that Salon failed to provide sufficient evidence of a…