California Workplace & Employment Law Blog

If you run a business in California, you already know the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) can turn routine payroll mistakes into staggering liability. A single missing line item on a wage statement, repeated across hundreds of pay periods for employees can generate a penalty with five, six or even seven figures attached. What a lot of employers don’t realize is how much control they still have over that number. A recently published decision is one of the clearest illustrations yet of that principle in action.

I’ve previously written about the importance of distributing employee handbooks, employment arbitration agreements and confidentiality agreements to your workforce. However, if you have employees who have little English literacy, it is important that you also provide translations of these key documents to your non-English speaking employees.