Abikar

Before the Court is Defendants' motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint ("FAC"). (ECF No. 7.) The motion is fully briefed. Based on the moving papers, and for the reasons below, the Court GRANTS in part and DENIES in part the motion to dismiss.

I. Allegations

In this putative class action, Plaintiffs allege the following relevant facts. Plaintiffs are East African refugees who currently are, or formerly were, employees of Defendants Bristol Bay Corporation ("BBNC"), Glacier Technical Solutions, LLC ("GTS"), and Workforce Resources, LLC ("Workforce"). (FAC, ECF No. 5 at ¶ 2.) BBNC is an Alaskan Native Corporation based in Anchorage, Alaska. (FAC ¶ 30.) BBNC wholly owns GTS and Workforce. (FAC ¶¶ 31-32.) BBNC "operates as a joint employer with GTS and Workforce ... by sharing or codetermining policies, human resource functions, management functions, and more." (FAC ¶ 30.) GTS and Workforce maintain offices in Oceanside, California. (FAC ¶¶ 31-32.)

Defendants contract with the Department of Defense to train Marines in foreign cultures. (FAC ¶ 3.) In doing so, Defendants employ East African refugees, on a "temporary, part-time, and sporadic" basis, to "role play" as…