California PAGA Suit Deluge Forecast After Uber Driver Ruling

California courts will see a surge of employment law clashes in the wake of a high court ruling that workers using the state’s Private Attorneys General Act to enforce its labor code can pursue representative claims even if their individual ones are shunted to arbitration, attorneys told Bloomberg Law.

Dozens of cases throughout California’s trial courts have been on hold awaiting the decision in a case involving Uber Eats driver Erik Adolph, who alleged labor violations under PAGA, the state’s unique law that allows individuals to step into the state’s shoes and sue for workplace violations.

And while a June ...