Williams v. Alacrity Solutions Grp.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts3

Corbin Williams (Williams) worked as an insurance adjuster for Alacrity Solutions Group, LLC (defendant) starting in 2014. While employed, Williams “typically” worked 84-hour weeks—that is, 12 hours a day, seven days a week. He was an hourly employee. As a result, he was entitled to overtime pay whenever he worked more than eight hours in a day or 40 hours in a workweek, and was also entitled to overtime pay whenever he worked a seventh consecutive day. But defendant did not pay Williams any overtime pay. As a result, defendant violated the Labor Code by not paying Williams all the wages he was owed and by issuing Williams inaccurate wage statements. (§§ 201- 203, 510 et seq., 226, 1174, 1174.5.) Williams’s employment with defendant ended in January 2022.

We draw these facts from the allegations in the operative complaint.

II. Procedural Background

A. Administrative exhaustion It was not until March 7, 2023—more than a year after his employment ended—that Williams provided written notice to California’s Labor & Workforce Development Agency (the Agency) of his intent to pursue a PAGA action for defendant’s Labor Code…