Lopez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division RITO LOPEZ, Case No. 21-cv-08652-LB

Plaintiff,

PRELIMINARY APPROVAL ORDER

v. Re: ECF Nos. 56, 78 EUROFINS SCIENTIFIC, INC, et al., Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION In this putative class action, the plaintiff, who works as a packer, sued his alleged employers — Eurofins Scientific, Environmental Sampling Supply, and TestAmerica Laboratories — alleging mainly that they did not pay him for the following off-the-clock work: (1) completing temperature checks and COVID-19 screening questionnaires before clocking in for work (one minute and often longer) and (2) waiting in line to clock back in after meal breaks (at least two additional minutes). He claims that the defendants failed to pay the class members for all hours worked, failed to pay minimum wages and overtime wages, did not provide accurate wage statements, failed to provide meal and rest periods, failed to…