Natalie Tomco v. Prada USA Corporation

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiff-Appellant Natalie Tomco (“Tomco”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Prada USA Corporation (“Prada”) on Tomco’s claims for: (1) constructive discharge; (2) wrongful termination in violation of public policy; (3) retaliation under California Labor Code § 1102.5(c); (4) California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (“PAGA”); and (5) punitive damages. We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo, Anthoine v. N. Cent. Cntys. Con sortium, 605 F.3d 740, 747 (9th Cir.2010), and we affirm.

1.To establish a constructive discharge claim, “adverse working conditions must be unusually ‘aggravated’ or amount to a ‘continuous pattern’ before the situation will be deemed intolerable.” Turner v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 7 Cal.4th 1238 , 32 Cal.Rptr.2d 223 , 876 P.2d 1022, 1027 (1994); see also Watson v. Nationwide Ins. Co., 823 F.2d 360, 361 (9th Cir.1987).

Tomco’s assertion that she experienced a “continuous pattern” of adverse working conditions because three store managers had, at various times, asked her to ring up credit card sales without proper identification is not “sufficiently extraordinary and egregious to overcome…