Every wage and hour case that comes into our office starts the same way. Before we talk strategy and long before mediation, we ask the client for one thing: the raw time and payroll data. Not a summary. The punch-level time records, the payroll register with every pay code, and the wage statements. That data
Scaled Comp’s August Settlement Pulse recorded about 225 California PAGA and wage-and-hour settlements totaling $157.4 million. The medians tell you where the market sat. They don’t tell you why one employer paid six times what another did for nearly the same number of pay periods, what a $6.5 million fund is actually buying, or whether