Octavio Agusto Arias v. The Shyft Group GTB, LLC

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On November 29, 2022, Plaintiff filed a Class Action Complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Defendant employed him as an hourly-paid, non-exempt employee from approximately 2013 to approximately August 2022. According to Plaintiff’s Complaint: Throughout Plaintiff’s employment, Defendants failed to pay for all hours worked (including minimum, straight time, and overtime wages), failed to provide Plaintiff with legally compliant meal periods, failed to authorize and permit Plaintiff to take rest periods, failed to timely pay all final wages to Plaintiff when Defendants terminated his employment, failed to furnish accurate wage statements to Plaintiff, failed to indemnify Plaintiff for expenditures, and failed to produce requested employment records. Complaint ¶ 14. Plaintiff alleges the following claims for relief: (1) failure to pay minimum and straight time wages (Cal. Labor Code §§ 204, 1194, 1994.2, and 1197); (2) failure to pay overtime wages (Cal. Labor Code §§ 1194 and 1198); (3) failure to provide meal periods (Cal. Labor Code §§ 226.7, 512); (4) failure to authorize and permit rest periods (Cal. Labor Code §…