Young

BACKGROUND

Employer is a temporary staffing company. Plaintiff was hired by Employer as a temporary worker in July 2013.

Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rules 8.1105(b) and 8.1110, this *

opinion is certified for publication with the exception of part I. 1 All undesignated section references are to the Labor Code.

1 On August 5, 2013, Employer assigned Plaintiff to a temporary position at Bank of the West (BOW or Bank). On Friday, August 16, Plaintiff had a telephone conversation with an Employer representative about delivery of Plaintiff’s paycheck. The Employer representative claimed Plaintiff was verbally abusive on the phone. Plaintiff testified the Employer representative “basically” told Plaintiff she was “fired” and it was “implied” the firing was from Employer, rather than the Bank assignment. In a contemporaneous internal email, the Employer representative characterized her message to Plaintiff as being that she was “not to return back to Bank of the West due to her violent and threatening behavior as a pre[]cautionary measure and safeguard for Bank of the West.” Plaintiff reported for work at the Bank on the following Monday, August 19. A different Employer…