Labor/Employment
Sep. 2, 2015
Has PAGA really saved the wage and hour mass action?
California employees increasingly are turning to the Private Attorneys General Act for mass wage and hour actions, but should they?
Gene F. Williams
Senior Counsel
Gordon & Rees LLP
Phone: (213) 270-7831
Email: gfwilliams@grsm.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
To California employees facing an increasingly difficult standard for obtaining class certification in wage and hour cases after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, as well as the court's ruling on the enforceability of arbitration agreements that barred class claims in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, the Private Attorneys General Act provided a potential life preserver in a sea of anti-employee rulings.
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