Case: Wage & Hour/Worker Misclassification (S.D. Cal.)

Earthgrains Distribution, LLC and Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. are denied summary judgment on employees’ Private Attorneys General Act and putative class action claims of misclassification as independent contractors, a California federal district court ruled, where releases employees signed as part of distribution agreements were prospective and thus unenforceable under California law, no bona fide dispute existed over past wages, and the releases were procedurally and substantively unconscionable.