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Employees Can Now Seek Civil Penalties For Late Wages

Starting January 1, 2020, California employees will be able to seek penalties from their employers directly for late payment of wages. If you are wondering thinking employees were already able to do that, you are partially right. On October 10, 2019, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 673 (“AB 673”),…

Corporate Owners and Officers are Individually Liable for PAGA Penalties

Readers of this blog know the potent plaintiff’s weapon that is California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”).  PAGA allows an individual employee to “stand in the shoes of the State” and sue his employer for civil penalties flowing from the employer’s wage-and-hour violations. What makes PAGA so devastating…