Labor/Employment
Jul. 17, 2014
Courts use common sense to manage PAGA
Although PAGA cases are on the rise, it appears that courts are increasingly limiting the unduly burdensome scope of discovery in these actions. By Katherine Den Bleyker
The Private Attorneys General Act, or PAGA, was enacted in 2004 to allow private litigants to act as the proxy of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency and sue their employers for civil penalties that previously only the agency could collect. The goal was to supplement the state's labor law enforcement capabilities, since the Legislature recognized that the agency's funding could not keep pace with labor market gro...
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