Labor/Employment
Oct. 27, 2015
PAGA not the panacea wage and hour plaintiffs hoped
Another ruling has been issued that demonstrates that courts are acting to substantially limit the scope and effectiveness of PAGA as a tool for prosecuting large wage and hour mass actions.
Gene F. Williams
Senior Counsel
Gordon & Rees LLP
Phone: (213) 270-7831
Email: gfwilliams@grsm.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
I have previously questioned whether plaintiffs' attorneys would really be able to rely on California's Private Attorneys General Act to circumvent the class action requirements of typicality and commonality in bringing wage and hour mass actions. ("Has PAGA really saved the wage and hour mass action?" Sept. 1). I posited that because the absence of commonality among employees' claims would create problems with manageability, with all or at least a large number of individual employees bein...
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