A California federal district court denied a retail worker’s motion to dismiss counterclaims for conversion and breach of the duty of loyalty brought by Ecco Retail LLC in response to the worker’s wage and hour class action under the state’s labor laws, finding that the court had supplemental jurisdiction over the counterclaims because they formed part of the same case or controversy as the original claims, and the employer had sufficiently pled facts showing the employee remotely clocked in but arrived at work later.
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