Labor/Employment
Jul. 18, 2012
Will employers waive representative actions goodbye?
The question of whether arbitration provisions waiving PAGA representative actions are enforceable will likely make its way to the California Supreme Court. By Jesse M. Jauregui of Alston & Bird LLP
In September 2003, the state Legislature enacted the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004, finding it was in the public interest to provide that civil penalties for violations of the Labor Code may also be assessed and collected by aggrieved employees acting as private attorneys general "on behalf of himself or herself and other current or former employees" See California Labor Code Section 2698 (Historical & Statuto...
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