{"id":9555,"date":"2023-04-17T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2023-04-17T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:58:01","slug":"frivolous-lawsuits-are-destroying-jobs-in-california-voters-will-have-a-chance-to-fix-that-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=9555","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Lawsuits Are Destroying Jobs in California \u2013 Voters Will Have a Chance to Fix That in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original story can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While claiming to be fighting for the rights of workers, greedy lawyers and special interests are abusing a California state law called the Private Attorney Generals Act (PAGA) to shake down small businesses for outrageous payouts for themselves. Voters can stop this abuse and protect workers by passing the Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act in the November 2024 election.<\/h4>\n
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A little-known law in California is being abused by politicians, unscrupulous lawyers, and special interests to shake down our state\u2019s already struggling businesses. The financial losses are mounting, and jobs are being destroyed.<\/p>\n

The Private Attorney Generals Act (PAGA) is a California state law quietly passed in 2004 that gives private labor law attorneys the right to act as de-facto state law enforcement agents in suing small businesses for alleged \u201clabor law violations.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CBIA), before the passage of the PAGA in 2004, \u201cemployees could not bring civil actions in court to enforce non-monetary provisions in the Labor Code.\u201d Like how labor code violations are enforced in every other US state, the California State\u2019s Labor Commission performed that enforcement role.<\/p>\n

But in 2004, a group of eager trial attorneys approached California politicians and said passing PAGA would help take the burden off the State Labor Commission and bring more revenue to the state of California in the form of commission payments from any financial settlements the lawyers received from their private lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow twenty years later, greedy trial lawyers are making fortunes by abusing the flawed law while workers and businesses pay the price,\u201d says Carl DeMaio, Chairman of Reform California.<\/p>\n

DeMaio says more than a third of all settlements under PAGA go directly to the lawyers when the funds should have gone entirely to workers.<\/p>\n

For example, recently Google was hit with a sue-and-settle PAGA lawsuit where the company agreed to a $1 million settlement to make the frivolous lawsuit go away. Of that settlement, the California state government received $488,000, the attorney $330,000, and each employee received a measly $15.<\/p>\n

DeMaio also warns that the PAGA law is now being used in another shakedown scam where union bosses demand a small business sign a costly union contract. That latest scam was made possible by state politicians when they passed a PAGA amendment law in 2020 allowing unionized companies to be exempt from PAGA lawsuits.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why DeMaio and a coalition of small business and worker advocates are backing a statewide ballot measure to fix the PAGA abuses called the Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act.\u00a0Read the full measure here >><\/a><\/p>\n

The initiative would repeal PAGA but would restore the role of the CA Labor Commission for enforcing labor law. Furthermore, the initiate gives businesses a period to correct violations without penalty and increase penalties for business who fail to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to end the abuse of PAGA and the costly and frivolous lawsuits it has spawned that only line the pockets of trial attorneys and special interests at the expense of small businesses and workers,\u201d DeMaio says.<\/p>\n

DeMaio urges all concerned California voters and small business owners to join the campaign to repeal PAGA and replace it with the Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act in 2024 election!<\/p>\n

Original Article Link: Frivolous Lawsuits Are Destroying Jobs in California \u2013 Voters Will Have a Chance to Fix That in 2024 (reformcalifornia.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

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