Podcast
01.16.25
Lara P. Besser & Eric J. Gitig
January 16, 2025
“PAGA is a statute that's not employer-friendly, but one of the benefits of this last year is that we had some amendments come through that did, for lack of a better phrase, throw employers a little bit of a bone when it came to dealing with PAGA cases. One benefit is an expanded ability to cure labor code violations. The other involves arbitration and our ability to fight these claims and not just have to wait to trial to do it.”
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CONTENT
Eric J. Gitig
Principal, Los Angeles
I'm Eric Gitig, and I'm here with Lara Besser. We are on the Jackson Lewis California Class and PAGA Action Resource Group. We are here today to talk about PAGA. PAGA is one of the least just and fair laws that employers are dealing with today in California. It poses a number of problems for California employers. Despite the new amendments, which we're going to talk about from June 2024, they're...
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