Rashon Hayes v. Salt and Straw, LLC

I. INTRODUCTION

25 Plaintiff Rashon Hayes filed this putative wage-and-hour class action against 26 Defendant Salt & Straw, LLC (“Salt & Straw”) and unnamed Does in Los Angeles 27 County Superior Court. (Dkt. 1-5 Ex. A [Complaint, hereinafter “Compl.”].) Salt & Straw removed the action to this Court pursuant to the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (“CAFA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d). (Dkt. 1 [Notice of Removal, hereinafter “NOR”].) Before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to remand. (Dkt. 8 [hereinafter “Mot.”].) For the following reasons, the motion is GRANTED.1 5 II. BACKGROUND 7 Plaintiff worked for Salt & Straw as an hourly non-exempt employee from July 2019 to December 2019 in Los Angeles County. (Compl. ¶ 18.) Plaintiff and certain 10 other employees allegedly worked on an “alternative workweek schedule.” (Id. ¶ 28.) 11 Under California law, an alternative workweek schedule is “any regularly scheduled 12 workweek requiring an employee to work more than eight hours in a 24-hour period.” 13 Cal. Lab. Code § 500. If an employer and a unit of employees agree to adopt an 14 alternative workweek schedule, those employees forfeit their right to…