Case: Wage & Hour/Unpaid Wages (C.D. Cal.)

Feb. 19, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

A California federal district court denied in part Dyncorp International’s motion to dismiss, allowing a non-exempt aircraft maintenance worker’s expense reimbursement claim under the California Labor Code to proceed because the worker sufficiently alleged specific examples of reasonable and necessary work-related expenditures — including phone costs, mileage, and protective equipment — while dismissing with leave to amend his claims for minimum wages, meal and rest breaks, waiting time penalties, wage statement violations, timely payment of wages, and unfair competition.

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