On June 25, 2024, Jonathan A. Siegel, Principal at Jackson Lewis Orange County, delivered a presentation at the annual Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conference in Chicago, providing valuable insights into the latest developments in labor and employment law in California.
The presentation covered numerous recent and upcoming legal updates affecting California employers in 2024 through 2025, including reforms to PAGA litigation, increased wage theft enforcement, paid sick leave policies, and various city/county ordinances, emphasizing the need for employers to stay compliant with the complex and ever-changing employment law landscape in California.
On July 1, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) reform bills into law that apply to actions brought on or after June 19, 2024. These actions are the first changes to PAGA since its enactment.
“The PAGA law has been a scourge of employers in California for years now and it’s a law that plaintiffs’ lawyers use to sue for technical violations of the labor code,” Siegel started. “[T]here’s been tremendous abuse of it and employers have been…littered with these kinds of PAGA cases and they’re very hard.”
One of the most impactful modifications is the stricter standing requirement, where aggrieved employees can only pursue claims for Labor Code violations they personally experienced within the one-year statute of limitations. This change aims to...
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