Castrejon v. CCS Orange County Janitorial, Inc. CA
In this wage and hour action, CCS Orange County Janitorial, Inc. (CCS Orange County) filed a motion to compel plaintiff Mireya Castrejon to submit her claims to arbitration based on evidence Castrejon signed a binding arbitration agreement at the commencement of her employment with CCS Orange County. The trial court denied the motion. CCS Orange County contends the court erred by concluding CCS Orange County was not a party to the arbitration agreement and could not enforce that agreement against Castrejon.
We affirm. The general rule is that one must be a party to an arbitration agreement to invoke it. The arbitration agreement provides that Castrejon agreed to submit any claims she had against CCS Orange County’s parent company to binding arbitration. CCS Orange County is not a party to the arbitration agreement and failed to show the applicability of any exception to the general rule. The motion to compel was properly denied.
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