Wage-and-hour litigation in California is in a transition period, and the impacts of those changes are playing out very visibly in the mediation forum. 

Recent reforms to the state’s Private Attorneys General Act, newly proposed Labor & Workforce Development Agency regulations, evolving case law on arbitration and representative actions and a growing body of appellate decisions are reshaping how wage-and-hour disputes are filed, litigated and resolved. At the same time, many of the large employers that once dominated wage-and-hour class actions have already faced extensive litigation and settled cases with broad releases, leaving smaller and midsize businesses as targets.

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