Reynosa

BACKGROUND

Reynosa was previously employed by ATS. On March 3, 2017, he signed the company’s “Arbitration Agreement,” (boldface omitted) which provided in part:

1 Unless otherwise indicated, subsequent statutory citations refer to the Code of Civil Procedure. 2 ATS filed an informal response to the writ petition on July 21, 2023. Per our June 2, 2023 order, Reynosa had 20 days from the date of the filing of the informal response to submit an informal reply. He did not do so. On August 21, 2023, Reynosa filed a “motion for permission to submit late filing pursuant to CCP § 4[73] . . . .” (Boldface & capitalization omitted.) Having not yet addressed this motion, we now exercise our discretion pursuant to section 473, subdivision (b) and deny it as it is redundant to Reynosa’s reply to ATS’s return.

2. “In the event of any dispute arising under or involving any provision of the employment relationship or any dispute regarding the employment of the undersigned employee (hereinafter referred to as ‘employee’) with the Company, . . . employee and the Company agree to submit any such dispute to binding arbitration pursuant to the provisions of Title 9 of Part III of the California…