[DOWNLOAD] "Caliber Bodyworks" by Colorado Supreme Court ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Caliber Bodyworks
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 23, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 101 KB
Description
The States labor law enforcement agencies -- the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) and its constituent departments and divisions -- are authorized to assess and collect civil penalties for specified violations of the Labor Code committed by an employer. (E.g., Lab. Code, § 210 [authorizing Labor Commissioner to recover civil penalties as part of a hearing or civil action to recover unpaid wages and penalties for violations of Lab. Code, §§ 204, 204b, 204.1, 204.2, 205, 205.5 and 1197.5]. With a stated goal of improving enforcement of existing Labor Code obligations, the Legislature adopted the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (Act) (§ 2698 et seq.), permitting, as an alternative, an aggrieved employee to initiate a private civil action on behalf of himself or herself and other current or former employees to recover civil penalties if the LWDA does not do so. The penalties collected in these private civil actions are to be distributed 75 percent to the State and 25 percent to the aggrieved employee. Before an employee may file an action seeking to recover civil penalties for violations of any of the Labor Code provisions enumerated in section 2699.5, however, he or she must comply with the Acts administrative procedures as set forth in section 2699.3, subdivision (a), which include providing notice to the LWDA and the employer and waiting a prescribed period of time to permit the LWDA to investigate and to decide whether to cite the employer for the alleged violations.