Business and labor groups announce an agreement to limit a California law on class-action workplace lawsuits and avoid a battle at the ballot box in November.For years, California businesses have tried to repeal a unique state labor law that allows workers to sue their bosses over alleged workplace violations and generates hundreds of millions of dollars in employer penalties for the state.
Chamber of Commerce chief executive Jennifer Barrera, in a press release, called the agreements “meaningful reforms that ensure workers continue to have a strong vehicle to get labor claims resolved, while also limiting the frivolous litigation that has cost employers billions without benefiting workers.”
“We are happy to have negotiated reforms to that better ensure abusive practices by employers are cured and that workers are made whole, quicker,” Lorena Gonzalez, leader of the California Labor Federation, said in a statement.
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