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Power Continues To Flow Toward Calif. Plaintiffs Via PAGA

Law360, New York (May 22, 2015, 12:01 PM EDT) -- Your employees and their would-be attorneys were given a tremendous power by the state of California in 2004, although it took them and the rest of the legal community a little while to figure out this awesome gift. The law — the Private Attorney General Act of 2004 — gives employees in California the right to bring a lawsuit against their employers for any violation of the California Labor Code. In short, it allows employees to step into the shoes of an enforcement agency like the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and recover civil penalties on behalf of the California Labor Workforce Development Agency ("LWDA") for aggrieved employees and their co-workers....

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