Aguilar

INTRODUCTION

Midas Trucking appeals from the trial court’s order denying Midas’s motion to compel its former employee Alejandro Aguilar to arbitrate claims arising out of his employment. The court ruled Midas failed to authenticate an electronic signature on an arbitration agreement purportedly presented to Aguilar during the “onboarding” process for new hires. Midas argues the court erred in excluding much of its owner’s declaration detailing the onboarding process and in ruling Midas did not meet its burden with admissible evidence to show the purported signature was Aguilar’s. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding most of the owner’s declaration and that the remaining evidence does not compel a decision in favor of Midas. Therefore, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Aguilar Files This Action Against Midas, and Midas Moves To Compel Arbitration Aguilar worked as a delivery truck driver for Midas from June 2021 to April 2022. In December 2022 Aguilar filed a putative class action, a representative action under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) (Lab. Code, § 2698 et seq.), and individual claims for various Labor Code…