Ornelas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOHN ORNELAS, Plaintiff, No. C 18-06453 WHA

v.

TAPESTRY, INC., ORDER CERTIFYING CLASS Defendant.

15 INTRODUCTION In this wage-and-hour action, plaintiff seeks to certify a class of current and former non-exempt California employees of defendant’s high-end retail clothing stores for claims of unpaid wages and overtime arising out of defendant’s employee security check policy. This order finds that plaintiff has met his burden to show that common questions will predominate in adjudicating the class’ claims for unpaid minimum wages and overtime incurred as a result of defendant’s security check policy. Therefore, the class will be CERTIFIED. Because a previous order granted summary judgment in favor of defendant on the other labor code claims, certification is limited to the claims for unpaid wages and overtime. Therefore, the motion as to those proposed subclasses is DENIED. …