After years of enduring the heavy burdens of California’s PAGA rules, employers are finally seeing signs of relief. In a recent decision, a California appeals court ruled that if an employee loses their individual claims in arbitration, they cannot move forward with a PAGA lawsuit as a representative of other workers. This is a significant victory for employers because it means arbitration can effectively shut down costly and time-consuming PAGA lawsuits in certain situations. In this case, the court agreed with the employer's argument that since the employee’s wage and hour claims were disproven during arbitration, they no longer had