Price

Price v. Starbucks Corp.

Good Law
122 Cal. Rptr. 3d 174·192 Cal. App. 4th 1136·2011 Cal. App. LEXIS 186
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJanuary 20, 2011No. B219501California4,090 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Aldrich, J.

Plaintiff and appellant Drake Price worked at Starbucks as an entry-level barista for approximately 13 scheduled shifts before he was fired. He sued Starbucks Corporation (Starbucks) on behalf of himself and a putative class, seeking to recover unpaid wages, penalties, and damages, alleging Labor Code violations, including failure to timely pay wages upon termination, failure to pay an additional hour of reporting time pay on the day he was fired, and failure to issue a wage statement that complied with the Labor Code. Starbucks challenged the pleadings, and the trial court dismissed the noncompliant wage statement cause of action and granted a motion to strike the allegations that Price was entitled to continuing wages because Starbucks failed to timely pay wages upon termination. Starbucks then *1139 successfully moved for summary judgment on the remaining causes of action in the complaint, which focused on Starbucks’s purported failure to pay Price an extra hour of reporting time pay on the day he was fired. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

1. Facts Alleged in the Complaint

Price was an entry-level employee at Starbucks from October 22, 2007, through…

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