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City attorney outlines use of AB 594, recent cases and grant bids to expand wage‑theft enforcement
Summary
City Attorney officials described how AB 594 supplements existing enforcement tools, summarized recent impact litigation and said the office has applied for a second year of a state prosecutor grant to expand capacity.
The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office told the Economic and Jobs Committee it is using state Assembly Bill 594 as an additional enforcement tool but that the office long has enforced wage and hour laws by borrowing state statutes under the Unfair Competition Law.
The public rights branch’s interim chief, Senior Assistant City Attorney Michael Bostrom, said the branch focuses on “impact litigation” in cases that require substantial resources and aim to change employer business practices. He told the committee the office litigated a high‑profile case at the Port Complex over misclassification of trucking drivers, won a published Court of Appeal decision affirming that California’s AB‑5 is not preempted by federal trucking regulations, and obtained about $500,000 in penalties in that matter.
Bostrom said the city filed a…
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