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Jun. 17, 2024

Negotiations intensify as business and labor groups fight over future of PAGA

The down-to-the-wire negotiations to avoid an expensive ballot measure fight follow years of failed legal and legislative efforts by business groups to undermine the law. The talks have been underway since at least early May, and the sides have grown further apart in recent days.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (The New York Times)

Down-to-the wire negotiations to avoid an expensive ballot measure fight follow years of mostly failed legal and legislative efforts by business groups to undermine the law known as PAGA.

California's Private Attorney General Act has become one of the most common and successful ways to sidestep arbitration agreements in labor and employment contracts. Meanwhile, recent court decisions have reinforced the effectiveness of the 2004 law. The proposed initiative would repeal PAGA....

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