Sonesta Gets Arbitration for Most of Hotel Worker’s Wage Claims

A former Sonesta International Hotels Corp. housekeeper must arbitrate her individual Private Attorneys General Act and wage claims, but a federal court in California opted to stay her non-individual PAGA claim rather than dismiss it outright.

There’s “little doubt” that a recent US Supreme Court ruling supports sending to arbitration the ex-housekeeper’s individual claim under the California law that allows workers to recover civil penalties on the state’s behalf, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said.

Although federal district courts in California have “taken different approaches” as to what to do with non-individual PAGA claims ...