Remand Ordered In Employee’s Wage Abuse Class Complaint

Mealey's (May 7, 2021, 2:11 PM EDT) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A federal judge in California on May 6 granted a motion to remand filed by an employee who brought wage abuse class claims against his employers, opining that the employers failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the estimated amounts it stated were in fact in controversy for each of the claims, calling “unreasonable” the employers’ assumption that a meal and rest break violation occurred every day for every member of the proposed class....