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Labor/Employment,
Corporate,
California Supreme Court

Jul. 26, 2017

High court PAGA ruling will be a boon for plaintiff-employees

Employers in the position of having to defend against a PAGA claim will likely be compelled to produce state-wide employee contact information if they have multiple facilities within California.

Adriana Cara

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Employment, Labor and Benefits

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In a move that has taken California employers by storm, the California Supreme Court has given plaintiffs the green light to discover state-wide contact information of employees in claims brought against their employers under California's Private Attorneys General Act. Such attempts to discover information of this magnitude have generally been curtailed by employers' objections based on overbreadth, privacy and undue burden grounds.

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