Olivo

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LOURDES OLIVO, CASE NO.: 17-cv-02153-L-WVG Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING JOINT

v. MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF

SETTLEMENT

FRESH HARVEST, INC. et al.,

Defendants.

16 Pending before the Court in this action for violation of California and federal labor laws is Joint Motion for Approval of Amended Settlement Agreement pursuant to California Labor Code § 2699(l)(2). (Doc. no. 75 ("Motion"); doc. no. 76 ("Amended Agreement").) For the reasons which follow, the Motion is granted. I. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Lourdes Olivo was a seasonal hourly farmworker employed by Defendants to work in the lettuce fields in the Imperial Valley and in the vicinity of Yuma, Arizona. (Doc. no. 21-1; see also doc. no. 22.) During the harvesting season, she was given work on a daily basis. Along with her co-workers, she was required to report at a fixed location in or around Calexico to take a crew bus to the work site for the day. Plaintiff claims the crew bus…