{"id":1421,"date":"2024-05-08T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2024-05-08T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:18:06","slug":"california-employers-good-faith-defense-to-wage-statement-penalties-recognized-by-states-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/2024\/05\/08\/california-employers-good-faith-defense-to-wage-statement-penalties-recognized-by-states-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"California Employer&#8217;s Good Faith Defense to Wage Statement Penalties Recognized by State&#8217;s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 6, 2024, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in\u00a0<i>Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc<\/i>.,<i>\u00a0<\/i>Case No. S279397, handing California employers a significant victory. The court unanimously held that a good faith dispute defense applies to claims for penalties or damages for inaccurate wage statements under California Labor Code Section 226(e). The<i>\u00a0Naranjo\u00a0<\/i>decision, in a rare win for California employers, resolves a split in authority in the California Courts of Appeal and enables employers who act in good faith to defend against inaccurate wage statement penalties under Section 226(e).\u00a0<i>Note<\/i><em>:<\/em>\u00a0Duane Morris served as appellate counsel for Spectrum in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/california_supreme_court_recognizes_employers_good_faith_defense_labor_code_wage_statement_0524.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 6, 2024, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in\u00a0Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc.,\u00a0Case No. S279397, handing California employers a significant victory. The court unanimously held that a good faith dispute defense applies to claims for penalties or damages for inaccurate wage statements under California Labor Code Section 226(e). The\u00a0Naranjo\u00a0decision, in a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/2024\/05\/08\/california-employers-good-faith-defense-to-wage-statement-penalties-recognized-by-states-supreme-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Employer&#8217;s Good Faith Defense to Wage Statement Penalties Recognized by State&#8217;s Supreme Court&#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":[42],"tags":[118,115,120,117,116,119],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wage-hour-litigation","tag-california","tag-eden-anderson","tag-good-faith-defense","tag-paul-killion","tag-robert-eassa","tag-wage-statement"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/classactiondefense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}