Dike

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 GINIKA DIKE, Case No. 23-cv-00342-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. COMPEL ARBITRATION AND

STAYING NON-INDIVIDUAL PAGA

ZARA USA, INC., CLAIM Defendant. Re: Dkt. No.

12 Defendant Zara USA, Inc. (“Zara”), an apparel company, moves to compel arbitration of individual claims brought by one of its former sales assistants, plaintiff Ginika Dike, who alleges that Zara violated California law when it failed to pay non-exempt workers for the time they spent screening for COVID-19 before beginning their shifts. Zara also moves to dismiss Dike’s class and representative claims. The motion is GRANTED, except for Dike’s non-individual claim brought under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”), which is not subject to arbitration and is STAYED until further guidance from the California Supreme Court. Dike’s other claims must be arbitrated. Although the Arbitration…