Category: PAGA

  • Larson & Gaston, LLP, launches new approach to help businesses reduce PAGA penalties

    Larson & Gaston, LLP, a Pasadena law firm dedicated to serving businesses in California, today addressed the use of PAGA reform to help California businesses strategically reduce large PAGA penalties. “By helping clients review their wage and hour practices, our personalized approach may protect them from unnecessary or excessive PAGA penalties related to future PAGA claims,” said Victor…

  • What is PAGA?

    What is PAGA?

    PAGA, or the Private Attorneys General Act, was created in 2004 by the California Legislature to allow employees to file lawsuits on behalf of the state for Labor Code violations and then share in the proceeds. It also allowed for an award of attorneys’ fees to the employee’s lawyers.  While this gave agency to wronged…