Michael Gonzales v. Charter Communications, LLC

Case 2:20-cv-08299-SB-AS Document 197 Filed 01/05/ Page 1 of Page ID #:3799

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MICHAEL GONZALES, et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-08299-SB-AS

Plaintiffs,

v. FINDINGS OF FACT AND

CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS,

LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

Plaintiffs brought wage and hour claims arising from their employment with Defendant Charter Communications, LLC (Charter) as maintenance technicians (MTs). The Second Amended Complaint (SAC), the operative pleading, named four plaintiffs. Dkt. No. 77. After three of those plaintiffs were voluntarily dismissed, Dkt. Nos. 100, 166, and the Court partially granted Charter’s motion for summary judgment, Dkt. No. 138, all that remained in this case were Plaintiff Michael Gonzales’s state-law claims arising from the so-called “circle of safety” (COS) checks that he and other MTs have performed off the clock when they used a company truck for personal reasons while they were on call. The parties presented three such claims for trial: (1) failure to pay the minimum wage for the time Gonzales spent performing these COS checks, (2)…