Crump
Crump v. Hyatt Corporation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CHRISTINE CRUMP, Case No. 20-cv-00295-HSG
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR
PRELIMINARY APPROVAL
v. Re: Dkt. No. 59 HYATT CORPORATION, Defendant.
12 Pending before the Court is Plaintiff’s unopposed motion for preliminary approval of class action settlement. See Dkt. No. 59. The Court held a hearing on the motion. For the reasons detailed below, the Court GRANTS the motion. I. BACKGROUND A. Factual Allegations Plaintiff Christine Crump was employed as a Line Cook at Hyatt House in Emeryville, California from approximately January to June 2019. See Dkt. No. 59-2 at ¶¶ 2–3; Dkt. No. 59-1, Ex. C (“SAC”) at ¶¶ 24–25. Plaintiff contends that Defendant had a timekeeping policy that rounded hourly employees’ time to the nearest hour, as opposed to paying them for every minute they were working. See SAC at ¶ 31. She further alleges that as a result, Defendant failed to pay overtime and minimum wage; timely pay…