Facts

Kerry Connelly worked at Starbucks Corporation. On March 29, 2021, Connelly filed a class action suit in Stanislaus Superior against Starbucks for wage-and-hour violations. Two months later, the case was removed to USDC Eastern. She later dropped her class claims after filing the second amended complaint, pursuing only the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claim.

PLAINTIFF'S CONTENTIONS: Plaintiff contended that defendant violated sections of the Labor Code pertaining to: inaccurate itemized wage statements and sought penalties pursuant to PAGA. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that because defendant's wage statements failed to name the legal identity of its employer and due to an inadvertent software glitch, failed to provide the total hours worked on 16,800 occasions, defendant furnished inaccurate, itemized wage statements in violation of labor laws.

DEFENDANT'S CONTENTIONS: Defendant denied all liability and disagreed, believing, even for the 16,800 wage statements alleged to be unlawful, that its wage statements were in compliance, because the total hours worked was apparent from the face of the wage statement.

Result

The case settled for $252,000.