California Court of Appeal

In consolidated cases brought by two groups of satellite television technician plaintiffs alleging that defendants, through a web of agreements with various affiliated and unaffiliated service providers, jointly employed plaintiffs, and therefore are jointly and severally liable for any violations of the FLSA's substantive provisions, 29 C.F.R. section 791.2(a), the district court's dismissal of the actions on the pleadings, holding that plaintiffs failed to adequately allege that defendants jointly employed plaintiffs, is reversed where, analyzing plaintiffs' allegations under the legal standard adopted by this circuit and construing those allegations liberally, as is required when ruling on a motion to dismiss, Wright v. North Carolina, 787 F.3d 256, 263 (4th Cir. 2015), plaintiffs' factual allegations state a claim under the FLSA.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/01/25

Judges

• WYNN

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• California Court of Appeal

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