Last week, a California Court of Appeal held that a unionized employee’s statutory wage and hour claims (meal and rest breaks, overtime) had to be arbitrated pursuant to the grievance-arbitration provisions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The employee had filed claims in court on behalf of a class of similarly situated employees alleging meal and rest break violations, overtime violations, and failure to timely pay wages on termination of employment. The employer moved to compel arbitration pursuant to an arbitration provision in its collective bargaining agreement with the employee’s union. The employee argued that the CBA’s arbitration provision did not apply to his statutory wage and hour claims.
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