9 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA

12 ADOLPH CRUZ, JARLATH REYNOLDS, WILLIAM SALDIVAR, and XIANG YANG LI, 13 on behalf of themselves and the aggrieved TENTATIVE RULING RE: MOTION employees, TO APPROVE PAGA SETTLEMENT 14

Plaintiffs,

17 DOES 1 to 100,

18 Defendants.

on July 10, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 3. The court now issues its tentative ruling as 21

follows:

of 2004 (“PAGA”) based on various alleged wage and hour violations. The Complaint, filed on 25

January 29, 2019, sets forth a single PAGA cause of action.

Reynolds, William Saldivar, and Xiang Yang (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) move for approval of 28

the settlement.

1 II. LEGAL STANDARD

2 A superior court must review and approve any PAGA settlement. (Lab. Code, § 2699, 3 subd. (l)(2).) The proposed settlement must be submitted to the Labor and Workforce 4 Development Agency (“LWDA”) at the same time it is submitted to the court. (Ibid.) 5 As discussed by one court:

6 PAGA does not establish a clear standard for evaluating