“So many of California’s Laws, like the current wage and hour law, put targets on the backs of small business owners… penalties can add up fast, easily reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars for a small company like ours (and millions for larger businesses). The end result is that employers have to enforce onerous labor regulations that often do not benefit employees, or risk getting sued.”

- LA Times

“Wage-and-hour litigation is the fastest-growing type of class action, legal experts say… The Labor Department has suggested that 70% of employers do not fully comply with the FLSA, they add.”

- BusinessInsurance.com

“Scores of plaintiffs' firms are now aggressively pursuing overtime cases…”

- NBC News

“California has some of the most onerous wage-and-hour laws in the country. Violations of California wage-and-hour laws often give rise to individual and class-action lawsuits under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA)…”

- Orange County Assemblyman Don Wagner

“Another view is that wage-and-hour cases are low-hanging fruit for employee law firms, and thus result in a quicker payday for labor lawyers than many other kinds of suits, say lawyers for employers.”

- East Bay Express