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*2 Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, and FERNANDEZ and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc. (“TFP”) and Abel Mendoza, Inc. (“AMI”) appeal the district court’s order which granted class certification to a class comprised of *3 current and former employees who allegedly did not receive the meal breaks required by California law while working at TFP’s produce and food processing facilities in Tracy, California. [2] The representative members of the certified classes are Maria Del Carmen Pena, Consuelo Hernandez, and Wendell T. Morris. [3] We affirm.
For the reasons set forth in its order, [4] we affirm the district court’s grant of “[c]ertification of the mixed hourly worker subclass . . . as to meal break claims,” and its “[c]ertification of the waiting time subclass . . . [to the extent it] is derivative of the mixed hourly workers subclass.” [5] We express no opinion about the district court’s determinations regarding the other subclasses. [6]
AFFIRMED.
[1] Pena v. Taylor Farms Pac., Inc. , 305 F.R.D. 197 (E.D. Cal. 2015) (hereafter Taylor Farms I ).
[2] Class certification was sought on a number of other grounds, but the issues before us involve only a meal break subclass certification and a derivative waiting- time subclass certification.
[3] Morris is a representative member of the meal break subclass only.
[4] See Taylor Farms I , 305 F.R.D. 197.
[5] See id. at 224.
[6] See id. at 207–11, 223–24.
