Reyna
Reyna v. WestRock Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
I. BACKGROUND
26 The FAC provides frustratingly little background about Plaintiff, Defendants, or Plaintiff’s 27 experience as an employee. Plaintiff alleges that she is “female resident of the State of California.” FAC at 4 (¶ 3). She has been a non-exempt employee in Salinas, California from approximately February 11, 2019 to present and her paystubs identify “WestRock Services, LLC, located at 1000 Abernathy Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30328” as her employer. Id. at 4 (¶ 3), 6-7 (¶ 14). Plaintiff alleges that seven Defendants jointly employ her: (1) WestRock Services, LLC (identified as her employer on her paystubs); (2) WestRock Company (the parent entity); and (3) WestRock Consumer Packaging Group, LLC, WestRock MWV, LLC, WestRock California LLC, WestRock CP, LLC, and WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC (affiliate entities of WestRock Services, LLC). According to Plaintiff, “WestRock Group” is comprised of “WestRock Company […] and all of its subsidiaries.” Id. at 6 (¶ 13.b). 1 Plaintiff seeks to represent a class of “all current and former non-exempt employees of [Defendants] in the State of California…