Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (N.D. Cal.)

A California federal district court granted two hourly-paid employees’ motion to remand their class action against Consolidated Engineering Laboratories alleging violations of California Labor and Business Codes, finding that their state law claims were not preempted by Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act despite their membership in the Operating Engineers Local No. 3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, because their claims arose from rights conferred by state law rather than exclusively from the collective bargaining agreement and did not require interpretation of the agreement.

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