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Labor/Employment

Oct. 17, 2017

Lawsuit uses PAGA to circumvent arbitration agreement

A human resources worker is suing her former employer — an Orange County medical device company — for gender-based pay inequity, using the state’s Private Attorneys General Act to circumvent the arbitration agreement she signed when she was hired.

Lawsuit uses PAGA to circumvent arbitration agreement
DESAI

A human resources worker is suing her former employer — an Orange County medical device company — for gender-based pay inequity, using the state’s Private Attorneys General Act to circumvent the arbitration agreement she signed.

Her attorney, Aashish Y. Desai of Desai Law Firm PC, filed the lawsuit Friday alleging that because of defendant Seaspine Holdings Corp.’s violation of the Equal Pay Act, it also violated wage-and-hour laws...

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