Gold

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ALBERT MARK GOLD, Case No. 22-cv-05036-JST

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. COMPEL ARBITRATION

ILLUMINA, INC., et al., Re: ECF No. 8 Defendants.

12 Before the Court is the motion to dismiss and compel arbitration filed by Defendants Illumina, Inc., and Verinata Health, Inc. ECF No. 8. The Court will grant the motion and stay this case. I. BACKGROUND In January 2022, Plaintiff Albert Mark Gold accepted an offer of employment with Verinata, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Illumina. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 3, 7-8. The offer letter indicated that the employment offer was contingent on Gold’s signing of an arbitration agreement. Id. at 12 (“This employment offer is also contingent on . . . signing of . . . the Arbitration Agreement.”). The arbitration agreement was executed on February 11, 2022. Id. ¶ 10; ECF No. 8-1 at 7- 9. Per its terms, the arbitration agreement “[wa]s entered into between Illumina,…