On July 1, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2288/Senate Bill 92, which amends the state’s controversial Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). PAGA allows employees to sue their employers for labor code violations and recover monetary rewards on behalf of themselves, other aggrieved employees, and the state. The PAGA revisions—which apply retroactively to PAGA civil actions brought on or after June 19, 2024—strengthen the right-to-cure process, allow employers to request an early court evaluation conference, and restructure civil penalties. California legislators had been under pressure from the business community to mitigate some of the law’s provisions, and enactment of the bill sets aside PAGA opponents’ efforts to add an initiative for PAGA repeal to this November’s ballot.
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