Moniz

BACKGROUND

Adecco provides temporary labor to a variety of companies, including Google. (Moniz II, supra, 72 Cal.App.5th at p. 65.) In March 2017, John Doe added Correa as a plaintiff in his suit in San Francisco Superior Court, captioned Doe v. Google (Super. Ct. S.F. City & County, 2016, No. CGC-16-556034), alleging that Google’s and Adecco’s confidentiality rules violated various Labor Code statutes. (Moniz II, at p. 65.) In April 2017, Moniz filed this PAGA action in San Mateo County Superior Court making similar allegations against Adecco. (Id. at pp. 65–66.) Moniz served Correa with a notice that the two cases involved the same parties, the same or similar claims, and the same or substantially identical transactions. (Id. at p. 66.) Adecco demurred in both suits based on federal preemption. (Moniz II, supra, 72 Cal.App.5th at p. 66.) The San Mateo Superior Court overruled the demurrer, but the San Francisco Superior Court sustained it. (Ibid.) Adecco filed a petition to coordinate the two actions. (Id. at p. 66, fn. 3.) That petition was denied because of the different demurrer rulings. (Ibid.) Correa and Doe appealed from the judgment in Doe v. Google and the denial of the…