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Timestamp: 2018-02-22 09:20:03
Document Index: 371177204

Matched Legal Cases: ['§1801', '§226', '§2699', '§17200', '§226', '§226']

Defendant D.M. Camp & Sons is a commercial table grape grower based in Kern County. Plaintiffs Fernando Rodriguez and Guadalupe Herrera are former employees of Defendant. The operative complaint is the third amended complaint, ("TAC"). Doc. 170. The TAC alleges Defendant failed to properly pay wages by forcing employees to work off the clock, forcing employees to purchase tools out of pocket, failing to pay minimum required wages, failing to provide meal and rest periods, failing to provide accurate itemized wage statements, and failing to maintain time records. Plaintiffs' claims are divided into ten causes of action: (1) violations of the federal Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act, 29 U.S.C. §1801 et seq. ("AWPA") through misinformation concerning the terms and conditions of employment, noncompliance with the terms of the working arrangement, failure to pay wages when due, and failing to provide accurate itemized written statements; (2) failure to pay wages; (3) failure to pay reporting time wages; (4) failure to provide required meal and rest periods as required by the Industrial Welfare Commission Work Order 14 ("IWC Order 14-2001") and Cal. Labor Code §226.7; (5) failure to pay wages in a timely manner at the termination of employment; (6) failure to provide itemized employee wage statements; (7) recovery for these violations under the Private Attorney General Act, Cal. Labor Code §2699 et seq. ("PAGA"); (8) breach of contract; (9) violation of the Unfair Competition Law, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §17200 et seq. ("UCL") through the above described activities; and (10) failure to pay overtime wages.
Defendant has made a motion to dismiss on a number of grounds. Defendant argues there is no remedy for IWC Order 14-2001 meal and rest period violations under Cal. Labor Code §226.7; Plaintiffs fail to state an AWPA cause of action; and the court should decline to assert supplemental jurisdiction over state law claims.
A. Meal and Rest Periods
Plaintiffs' fourth cause of action alleges "the class members worked for periods of more than five hours without a meal period of 30 minutes and were not provided full statutory ten minute rest periods while in the employ of Defendants....Plaintiffs and the Class members they seek to represent did not voluntarily or willfully waive rest and/or meal periods." Doc. 170, TAC, at 16:5-8 and 17:6-7. Plaintiffs allege that this constitutes a violation of Cal. Labor. Code §226.7 while Defendant asserts that Plaintiffs have failed to state a claim under Section 226.7.