Michael Joseph Metcalf v. Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc.

I. Background

Michael Joseph Metcalf (“Plaintiff”) sues Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc. (“YLA”) and Yusen Logistics Co., Ltd dba Yusen Logistics Group (“Yusen Japan” and, together with YLA, “Defendants”)), asserting ten claims for relief: 1) failure to provide required meal periods; 2) failure to provide required rest periods; 3) failure to pay overtime wages; 4) failure to pay minimum wage; 5) failure to timely pay wages; 6) failure to pay all wages due to discharged and quitting employees; 7) failure to maintain required records; 8) failure to furnish accurate itemized statements; 9) failure to indemnify employees for necessary expenditures incurred in discharge of duties; and 10) unfair and unlawful business practices. Defendants allegedly employed Plaintiff as a non-exempt employee, and Plaintiff seeks to represent a class of other current and former non-exempt employees of Defendants who were employed by Defendants and worked at any locations in the State of California at any time during the four years preceding the filing of the lawsuit continuing through to the end of the suit. See Complaint ¶¶ 3-5. According to Plaintiff, Defendants had…