Bravo

*921 This employment case concerns a choice-of-law clause in an arbitration agreement. The trial court interpreted the clause to mean some but not all individual employment claims must be arbitrated. We conclude all of them must be arbitrated.

The facts are simple. RADC Enterprises, Inc. hired Mel R. Bravo to manage a store. The parties signed a two-page arbitration agreement covering "all disputes" arising from the employment relationship. On page two, near *922 the end, the agreement added a one-sentence choice-of-law provision: "This Agreement shall be governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California."

After RADC fired him, Bravo sued RADC on individual employment claims, as well as on representative claims under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA). RADC moved to stay Bravo's PAGA claims and to compel arbitration on his individual claims.

The trial court severed and stayed the PAGA claims. The court found RADC engaged in interstate commerce and thus the Federal Arbitration Act governed the agreement. But the court compelled arbitration for only three of Bravo's nine individual claims, denying the arbitration motion on…