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An Employee’s Single PAGA Claim Cannot Be Split into Arbitration and Litigation Pieces

Back in 2014, the California Supreme Court ruled in Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles that an individual employee who has signed a mandatory arbitration agreement may be compelled to arbitrate his “individual damages claims.”  However, if that employee joins a representative PAGA claim to his other damages claims, that…