SB 310 (Wiener), a bill that would have undermined California’s recent bipartisan reforms to the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), has been moved to the Senate’s Inactive File and will not advance this session. June 6 marks the Legislature’s “house of origin” deadline—the last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced. With SB 310 stalled in the Senate, the bill is effectively dead for 2025. 

Western Growers, in close coordination with a broad coalition of allied organizations, played a key role in defeating this harmful legislation. Through direct advocacy and strategic engagement, we successfully persuaded legislators to withhold support for the bill and allow it to expire without a floor vote. 

SB 310 sought to create a new standalone private right of action to recover Labor Code Section 210 penalties—bypassing the penalty caps, expanded cure provisions, and early resolution processes adopted last year in SB 92 (Umberg) and AB 2288 (Kalra). Those landmark 2024 reforms were designed to protect responsible employers from abusive PAGA lawsuits while preserving workers’ rights to pursue legitimate claims. SB 310 would have circumvented those guardrails and exposed employers—regardless of their compliance efforts—to a new wave of litigation. 

Western Growers thanks our members who contacted their legislators and voiced opposition to SB 310. Your engagement made a difference. We will continue to monitor and defend against efforts to erode the integrity of the PAGA reform package and remain committed to protecting agricultural employers from unwarranted legal harassment and exposure.