Ramirez De Portillo v. Metro Services Group

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division CLAUDIA RAMIREZ DE PORTILLO, Case No. 24-cv-02118-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY

v. JUDGMENT

METRO SERVICES GROUP, Re: ECF No. 25 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION In this putative class action, the plaintiff sued her employer, Metro Services Group, asserting violations of the California Labor Code (claims one through seven), the California Business and Professions Code (claim eight), and the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) (claim nine).1 Metro moved for summary judgment, contending that the plaintiff’s claims are subject to a 2024 collective-bargaining agreement (CBA) that requires (1) arbitration of her individual California Labor Code and PAGA claims, (2) dismissal of her derivative unfair- competition claim, and (3) a stay of the representative part of her PAGA claim. The plaintiff counters that the CBA does not apply…