Flournoy v. CJS Solutions Group, LLC CA3
Plaintiff Ottist Flournoy filed a putative class action against his former employer, defendant CJS Solutions Group, LLC, doing business as The HCI Group (HCI), alleging numerous wage and hour claims. While the lawsuit was pending, HCI offered plaintiff a new position of employment, which plaintiff accepted. As part of the hiring process, plaintiff signed an arbitration agreement, which purported to refer all past, present, and future individual claims to arbitration, and waived his right to have any dispute heard or arbitrated on a class basis.
HCI then filed a motion to compel arbitration of plaintiff’s individual claims and to strike his class claims pursuant to the class action waiver. The trial court granted HCI’s petition to compel plaintiff’s individual claims to arbitration but found the class action waiver was unenforceable and thus declined to strike the class action claims.
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