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

A California federal district court granted a motion to remand an employee’s wage and hour class action claims under California Labor Code to state court, finding that C.H. Robinson Company, Inc. failed to establish federal subject matter jurisdiction under either the Class Action Fairness Act (requiring $5 million in controversy) or traditional diversity jurisdiction (requiring $75,000 in controversy), as the company’s calculations of meal period violations, rest period violations, wage statement violations, PAGA penalties, and attorneys’ fees were insufficient to meet either jurisdictional threshold.

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