Olivares v. Fountain Valley Regional Hospital
Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet), Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and Medical Center (Fountain Valley), and Joseph Badalian (collectively, appellants) appeal from an order denying their petition to compel Eda Olivares to arbitrate her lawsuit alleging Labor Code violations. The appeal boils down to two issues. First, does an employee handbook from 2012 obligate Olivares to arbitrate her dispute? Second, if it does not, may appellants bring another petition to enforce earlier agreements they claim compel arbitration? The trial court said no to both.
We affirm the order denying the petition to compel arbitration and appellants’ oral request to try again with earlier agreements. Olivares did not agree to anything contained in the employee handbook appellants sought to enforce; at best she merely acknowledged she had received it. And we cannot find that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow appellants another try.
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