Williams v. RGIS, LLC
Case Details
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- Published
- Procedural Posture — the stage the case had reached
- appeal
- State
- California
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Claim Types
Outcome
The appellate court affirmed the trial court's denial of the employer's motion to compel arbitration of PAGA representative claims, holding that California's Iskanian precedent prohibiting waiver of representative PAGA actions is not preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act and was not abrogated by Epic Systems.
What This Ruling Means
On October 18, 2021, the California Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of RGIS's petition to compel arbitration of Williams's PAGA representative claims. Applying the then-controlling Iskanian decision, the court rejected RGIS's argument that Epic Systems had displaced that precedent; this was an arbitration ruling, not a finding that the alleged Labor Code violations occurred.
This is a historical outcome. Later decisions, including Viking River Cruises v. Moriana (2022) and Adolph v. Uber Technologies (2023), addressed individual PAGA arbitration and continued standing for non-individual claims. The 2021 decision does not establish that all worker group claims can avoid arbitration.
This summary was generated to explain the ruling in plain English and is not legal advice.
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