Employers are applauding the California Supreme Court for recently diminishing the scope of the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which allows workers to bring civil suits against companies for violations of the state Labor Code.
State lawmakers are now on a tight timeline to pass legislation to codify a new agreement worked out by Gov. Gavin Newsom, business groups and labor leaders that reforms the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in a way that reduces one of the biggest tools for lawsuit abuse in the state
Under the deal to reform the Private Attorney General Act, a coalition of business groups would agree to withdraw a ballot measure that would have largely gutted PAGA. Reports showed PAGA generated lawsuits worth $10B in payouts from employers in the past 10 years, with big money for lawyers, little real benefit for workers
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims in California have shot up 34.5% from 2022 to 2023, reaching a record 7,826 PAGA notices last year, according to a new tally of both PAGA and class-action filings by the Ogletree Deakins law firm.
A new lawsuit from the U.S. and California chambers of commerce and other business advocates says new California laws forcing businesses to report "climate" emissions violates both the First Amendment and Clean Air Act.
The legislation would bar employers from speaking with their workers about union organizing efforts, and give trial lawyers new powers to sue employers accused of violating the new law for potentially big money damages
Airline catering company Flying Food Group (FFG) is the latest California-based hospitality group to be targeted by state lawmakers trying to enforce a union-backed bill which affects the rehiring process in the hospitality industry. The Labor Commissioner's Office of California has recently accused Flying Food Group of violating Senate Bill 93, citing the company over $1.2 million for not promptly rehiring 21 workers who were laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic when the company expanded its operations and started hiring again, as mandated by law.
A California Supreme Court ruling says counties can't shut down oil and gas drilling. Activists vowed to continue fighting to hinder local oil and gas extraction, which the industry said is misguided, will leave U.S. more dependent on foreign, dirtier energy sources
With proposed state legislation nearing a crucial June deadline, another bill to change the system of direct democracy in California remains under discussion in Sacramento
The executive committee of Californians for Fair Pay and Accountability is well on its way to getting its Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) initiative qualified for the 2022 ballot
A federal judge has denied a request to stay the enforcement of a preliminary injunction that temporarily bans Proposition 65 lawsuits requiring cancer warning labels
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has blocked lawyers from suing companies under California’s Proposition 65 over the presence of acrylamide in food, saying it is far from settled science the naturally occurring chemical causes cancer in humans.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A California federal court has refused to throw out a lawsuit that challenges the state’s coffee-causes-cancer label.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – District attorneys in California can pursue lawsuits in the names of residents outside of their counties, the California Supreme Court has ruled.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – California’s Chamber of Commerce is asking a federal judge to keep alive its lawsuit challenging a coffee-causes-cancer label that, if missing, subjects its members to lawsuits and statutory penalties.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – The California Chamber of Commerce is taking another shot to protect businesses in the state from facing lawsuits over Proposition 65, the state law that requires cancer warnings about hundreds of chemicals – specifically one found in coffee.
Small immigrant and minority-owned businesses have been the targets of Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) lawsuits in the Pasadena area, according to Paul Little, president of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the California Chamber of Commerce alleging the state's Proposition 65, which requires consumer cancer warnings about exposure to acrylamide and other carcinogens, violates the First Amendment.
SACRAMENTO – A U.S. district judge has temporarily blocked a new anti-arbitration bill before it was set to go into effect on Jan. 1, but a legal battle is likely to continue.
