Johnson v SunWest

NOTICE OF CLASS AND PAGA ACTION SETTLEMENT

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT COURT APPROVED NOTICE. READ CAREFULLY.

Abigail Johnson v. SunWest Milling, Inc. and SunWest Foods, Inc.
Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Butte Case No. 23CV02012

If you worked for SunWest Milling, Inc. and SunWest Foods, Inc. (SunWest) in California from July 21, 2019 through September 18, 2024, you may be entitled to receive a payment from a class action settlement. Your legal rights are affected whether you act or don’t act. Your legal rights and options—and the deadlines to use them—are explained in the Notice.

This is a court-authorized Notice. It is not a solicitation from a lawyer. You are not being sued.

• You have been identified as a Class Member in a lawsuit brought by a former employee of SunWest Milling, Inc. and SunWest Foods, Inc. (SunWest).

• The Court has preliminarily approved a class action settlement that will affect all current and former non-exempt employees for SunWest Milling, Inc. and SunWest Foods, Inc. (SunWest) in California from July 21, 2019 through September 18, 2024.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS IN THIS LAWSUIT

PARTICIPATE IN THE SETTLEMENT – NO ACTION REQUIRED	Stay in this lawsuit. Receive a payment. Give up certain rights. By doing nothing, you become part of the Settlement Class and will collect a Settlement Award as detailed below. You will automatically receive a payment from the Settlement if the “Court” (the Superior Court of California, County of Butte) finally approves the Settlement. In exchange, you will be bound by the Settlement including the release of all claims covered by the Settlement.
OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT	Stay in this lawsuit. May give up certain rights. If you wish to object to the Settlement, you may submit a written objection and supporting papers to the “Settlement Administrator” (Atticus Administration, a neutral third-party administrator mutually chosen by the Parties and approved by the Court). Any written objections will be provided to the Court. You may also offer your oral comments at the “Final Approval Hearing” (the Court’s hearing on the motion for final approval of the Settlement). In order to object, you must not have excluded yourself from the Settlement. If you object to the Settlement, you will remain a member of the Class, and if the Court approves the Settlement, you will be bound by the terms of the Settlement in the same way as Class Members who do not object.
ASK TO BE EXCLUDED	Get out of this lawsuit. Get no benefits from it. Keep rights. If you submit a “Request for Exclusion” (a Class Member’s submission of a written request to be excluded from the class portion of the Settlement signed by the Class Member), you will not receive a settlement payment. Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) Members (as defined below) cannot opt-out of the PAGA portion of the proposed Settlement and will receive their Individual PAGA Payments (the PAGA Members’ pro rata share of the 25% of the PAGA Penalties calculated according to the number of Workweeks worked during the PAGA period) even if they opt-out of the Class Settlement. If you ask to be excluded from the Settlement, you won’t share in the Settlement. But you keep any rights to sue SunWest Milling, Inc. and SunWest Foods, Inc. (SunWest) separately about the legal claims raised or that could have been raised in this lawsuit.