Feltham

BACKGROUND

Allied provided security guard services at several University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) medical facilities. Allied hired security guards and assigned them to a particular location. UCSF was responsible for supervising the security guards. Villegas worked for Allied from approximately February 2015 to May 2016. Thereafter, she had a baby. In 2017, Villegas reapplied for a security guard position and requested the overnight shift. During her job interview, Villegas disclosed that she did not have daytime childcare for her infant, who was then eight months old. The interviewer did not ask Villegas to describe her daytime activities; the interviewer believed asking such a question was illegal. Allied hired Villegas and assigned her to work the overnight shift — from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. — five nights per week. Villegas worked at the Mission Bay and Parnassus Street facilities. Allied did not require Villegas to use her car for work and did not dictate how she traveled to and from work. Using Villegas’s personal vehicle, Villegas’s mother often drove Villegas from their shared home in the East Bay to UCSF and picked Villegas up when Villegas’s shift ended.…