Schwendeman

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

Travel Staff “provides healthcare staffing and workforce management solutions by offering temporary placement of travel nurses.” Schwendeman is a registered nurse. She worked as a “Traveler” from December 2016 to April 2017 in Los Angeles and then from April to July 2017 in Walnut Creek. The operative complaint alleges that Travel Staff “does not actually employ Travelers,” and that Travel Staff has no supervisors or managers. Instead, according to the complaint, Travel Staff is designated as “the nominal employer,” but Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. and Cross Country Staffing, Inc. are “the actual employers of Travelers because they exercise control over Travelers’ wages, hours, and working conditions.” On March 23, 2017, while Schwendeman was working as a travel nurse, she electronically executed (using a program called “DocuSign”) an acknowledgement of receipt of a 2017 Cross Country Staffing document titled “Employment Terms & Conditions” (Terms and Conditions Booklet). The booklet contained a section titled “XXVI. Miscellaneous,” providing in part that “[a]ny and all disputes arising under this Agreement or in any way related to the…