Case: Individual Employment Rights/Contracts (W.D. Wash.)

Total Renal Care Inc., a subsidiary of DaVita, Inc., a company that provides administrative services for a network of outpatient dialysis centers, is entitled to a partial grant of its motion for judgment on the pleadings on an employee’s putative class action breach of contract, promissory estoppel and unjust enrichment claims alleging that TRC did not provide him premium pay under a Disaster Relief Policy in an employee handbook, when he continued to work during a “declared emergency” caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a federal court in Washington decided. Because the employee handbook and policy were too discretionary to constitute ...