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I. BACKGROUND

16 On January 10, 2020, Plaintiff filed this proposed class action in San Francisco County 17 Superior Court against Defendant Whelan Security of California Inc. and DOES 1 through 10. 18 See Dkt. No. 1-1 at 2. Plaintiff subsequently filed his first amended class action complaint 19 (“FAC”) on February 7, 2020. Id. at 29. 20 The operative complaint alleges that Plaintiff worked for Defendant in California from 21 approximately April 2012 to October 2019, specifically as a non-exempt supervisor from about 22 2015 until October 2019. See FAC at ¶ 4. Plaintiff seeks to represent a class of “all other 23 similarly situated current and former non-exempt and exempt supervisory and office employees of 24 [Defendant] who worked in California and all individuals who were subjected to a background 25 check by [Defendant].” Id. at ¶ 8. Plaintiff further seeks to represent the following classes and/or 26 subclasses: (1) overtime wage class; (2) minimum and regular wage class; (3) vacation pay class; 27 (4) rest period class; (5) wage statement class; (6) waiting time class; (7) unreimbursed expenses class; and (8) background check class. Id. In total,…