Blanca Sanchez v. Carpenter Co.

BACKGROUND

I. This is a putative employment class action brought by Plaintiff Blanca Sanchez (“Sanchez”) against her former employer Defendant Carpenter Co. d/b/a E.R. Carpenter Company, Inc. (“Carpenter”). (Compl., Doc. 1-1.) Sanchez seeks to represent a class of “[a]ll current and former California-based . . . hourly-paid and non-exempt employees of [Carpenter] within the State of California at any time during the period from April 24, 2016 to final judgment.” (Compl. ¶ 13.) Sanchez alleges that Carpenter “engaged in a systematic pattern of wage abuse against [its] hourly-paid and non-exempt employees within the State of California.” (Id. ¶ 24.) On October 19, 2020, Sanchez filed suit in Riverside Superior Court, asserting eight California-law claims against Sanchez for (1) unpaid overtime; (2) unpaid meal period premiums; (3) unpaid rest period premiums; (4) unpaid minimum wages; (5) final ______________________________________________________________________________

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CIVIL MINUTES – GENERAL

Case No. 5:20-cv-02550-JLS-SP …