Labor/Employment
Oct. 26, 2012
Small businesses use prevention, legal tricks, against class action woes
Small businesses rely on a variety of legal, insurance and human resource services to avoid making big employment law mistakes or to cover court costs when they do.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
When small business owners Soraya and Patrick Aughney faced allegations of wage-and-hour violations from their employees last year, they opted for an unusual defense: bankruptcy. According to one of their attorneys, it was a choice between that or losing their company, the valet parking service Certified Parking Attendants LLC. "That class claim would have destroyed the business," said David N. Chand...
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