Plaintiff Darrell Kroeger’s motion for leave to file a First Amended Complaint is GRANTED.

On October 6, 2017, Plaintiff Darrell Kroeger (“Plaintiff” and “Kroeger”) brought the instant employment action against Defendants Vertex Aerospace LLC (sued as L3 Technologies Inc.) and Patrick Bantilan (“Defendants”). Plaintiff was an aircraft mechanic. L3 is a private aerospace contractor and former employer of Kroeger. The individual defendants Bantilan and Paul Sichenzia (substituted in as Doe 1) are former supervisors of Kroeger. The Complaint initially stated twelve causes of action related to Labor Code violations and disability discrimination, however only the fifth cause of action for failure to timely produce employee file and payroll documents remains.

On November 21, 2017, Defendants removed the action to the Central District of California. Defendants successfully moved to dismiss each cause of action, except for the fifth, on LMRA/NLRA preemption grounds and failure to state a cau