As many large employers in California have experienced, it is all too common to have separate employees file duplicative PAGA actions in separate courts covering the same alleged claims on behalf of the same group of employees.  PAGA, of course, refers to the Private Attorneys General Act—a unique California law that allows an employee to

California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) was passed in 2007 and has operated primarily as a means to provide massive revenue to the state and to Plaintiffs’ attorneys.  Over the past decade or so, the statute has been the predominant vehicle for shakedown lawsuits against employers.   Virtually every year, certain business-minded legislators introduce bills to