{"id":340,"date":"2023-03-03T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=340"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:23:02","slug":"california-court-of-appeal-allows-good-faith-defense-for-wage-statement-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2023\/03\/03\/california-court-of-appeal-allows-good-faith-defense-for-wage-statement-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"California Court of Appeal Allows Good Faith Defense for Wage Statement Disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant victory for California employers, the state Court of Appeal issued a decision on February 27, 2023, that provides them with a defense to wage statement penalties recoverable under Labor Code \u00a7 226 when they can show a \u201cgood faith\u201d belief in their compliance with the Labor Code. See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/B256232A.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i>\u00a0(Feb. 27, 2023 Second District, Div. Four No. B256232) __Cal.App.5th __.\u00a0<i>Note<\/i>: Duane Morris was counsel for the defendant in this appellate case.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/finally_good_news_california_employers_extension_good_faith_dispute_defense_wage_hour_0323.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant victory for California employers, the state Court of Appeal issued a decision on February 27, 2023, that provides them with a defense to wage statement penalties recoverable under Labor Code \u00a7 226 when they can show a \u201cgood faith\u201d belief in their compliance with the Labor Code. See\u00a0Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2023\/03\/03\/california-court-of-appeal-allows-good-faith-defense-for-wage-statement-disputes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Court of Appeal Allows Good Faith Defense for Wage Statement Disputes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123,23,283,104,284,285],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-california","tag-california-court-of-appeal","tag-employment-law","tag-paul-j-killion","tag-robert-eassa","tag-sarah-gilbert"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}