Garcia

Filed 5/17/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

ISABEL GARCIA,

Plaintiff and Respondent, A166785

v. (Sonoma County STONELEDGE FURNITURE LLC Super. Ct. No. SCV269300) et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Stoneledge Furniture LLC (Stoneledge), RAC Acceptance East, LLC (RAC), and Inderjit Singh (collectively, defendants) appeal from the trial court’s denial of their petitions to compel arbitration of Isabel Garcia’s lawsuit against them. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Garcia is employed by RAC, a company that offers financing for purchases. On her first day of work in early 2016, she completed onboarding paperwork using Taleo, a third-party electronic workforce management platform used by RAC. Starting in 2016, Garcia worked at an RAC kiosk located inside an Ashley HomeStore operated by Stoneledge. In 2019, Singh began working as an Ashley HomeStore Sales Manager at that same location; he and Garcia worked in close physical proximity and interacted regularly. In 2020, Garcia reported to Ashley’s Human Resources…