The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held in a 2-1 decision that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not preempt the rule announced by the California Supreme Court in Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC that representative claims brought under California’s Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) cannot be waived. The ...
On October 6, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act (SB 358) —considered to be the toughest equal pay law in the country. The law strengthens existing gender pay equity protections for workers and imposes stiffer penalties for gender-based wage discrimination. Specifically, the law prohibits employers from paying different wage rates for ...