Case: Wage & Hour/California Class Actions (C.D. Cal.)

A California federal district court granted a non-exempt employee’s motion to remand class action claims under the California Labor Code and Business and Professions Code against Novolex Holdings, LLC, finding that Novolex failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the amount in controversy exceeded the $5 million threshold required under the Class Action Fairness Act, as its calculations relied on unreasonable assumptions regarding violation rates for wage and hour claims brought by the non-exempt employee.

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