Litigation
Nov. 26, 2016
Wage claim penalty piggybacking: end the madness
Picture this: Employee is underpaid $15 due to an error. Employee is terminated. Several months later, Employee reappears in the form of an attorney demand letter seeking recovery of $15, plus penalties 200 times the amount of the underpayment. By Maria Stearns and Peter Hering
Picture this:
Employee is underpaid $15 due to minimum wage or overtime error. Employee is terminated. Several months later, Employee reappears, this time in the form of an attorney demand letter seeking recovery of $15, plus wage-and-hour penalties 200 times the amount of the underpayment (and, of course, attorney fees).
This is an all-too-familiar scenario faced by California employers because of th...
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