Employee-side Los Angeles attorney Leonard H. Sansanowicz said the plaintiffs are trying to “flip PAGA on its head.” For decades, he said, minimum wage and other labor laws were subject to enforcement by local district attorneys, who rarely made them a priority.
“With all the limits on class actions, this is one of the last remaining mechanisms to hold employers accountable,” Sansanowicz said. “That’s why they want to get rid of it.”
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Leonard Sansanowicz
Leonard H. Sansanowicz is the principal attorney of Sansanowicz Law Group, P.C., whose practice is devoted to protecting the rights of California employees. He has spent his entire career prosecuting harassment, discrimination, defamation, whistleblower retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour/wage theft claims, both individual and representative actions. His most rewarding and fulfilling work is obtaining justice for his clients.
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