The Second Appellate District affirmed an order. The court held that several restaurant managers whose job duties and time spent on various tasks differed among their employers’ three restaurant locations were reasonably found not to have shown that common questions of law and fact predominated over individualized issues in their action based on their alleged misclassification as exempt from overtime wage laws.
Hermilo Arenas and six others (collectively, Arenas) worked as restaurant managers at three restaurants operated by El Torito Restaurants, Inc., and Real Mex Restaurants, Inc. Arenas sued El Torito and Real Mex for violation of statutes and regulations that required, among other things, payment of overtime wages, provision of meal and rest breaks, and furnishing wage and hour statements.
