You Can’t Eat Your Cake And Have Your PAGA Too

Seyfarth Synopsis: When an allegedly aggrieved employee attempts both to seek compensatory relief as an individual and to impose penalties as a proxy for the California Labor Commissioner under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (“PAGA”), the resulting comingling of the plaintiff’s interests as an individual and as a representative in the shoes of the State of California is another unsurprising byproduct of the PAGA statutory scheme. Some plaintiffs try to argue that results in one role don’t affect the other, but another court recently reminded plaintiffs that resolving their individual claims also resolves their ability to pursue representative PAGA claims.

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