Benefit of Counsel: Cleaning Up

By |June 1st, 2016|

In October 2016, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1506, which amended California’s Private Attorney General Act (PAGA), mostly in response to increased litigation over technical violations to wage statements.

Earlier this year, more changes to PAGA were proposed.

PAGA. Enacted in 2003, PAGA essentially deputizes the employee as an attorney general, giving him or her the right to seek civil penalties — not only for […]