Rodriguez

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

A. Employment relationship BW Supplies, LLC operates Burke Williams Day Spa (Burke Williams), which offers spa services at a variety of locations. On October 2, 2014, Burke Williams hired Ana Rodriguez (plaintiff) to work as a “spa attendant” at its Torrance, California location for $9 an hour. B. Plaintiff is onboarded as a new employee Plaintiff reported to the Torrance location on October 2, 2014, and attended orientation at 1 p.m. that day to fill out employment paperwork. At that time, Burke Williams relied upon a third-party vendor, Strategic Outsourcing, Inc. (SOI), to “provide payroll, tax remitting, tax reporting, and related services” for Burke Williams’ employees.

2 Upon arrival at the orientation, plaintiff was handed a “large stack of onboarding paperwork,” including six documents that she was required to review and sign. Plaintiff found the onboarding process to be “rushed and stressful” because she “felt overwhelmed by the volume of paperwork presented and the speed at which [she] was expected to complete it” and felt “pressured to sign all the onboarding paperwork quickly without question.” One of the six…