Opinion ID: 2625746
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Heading: Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004

Text: (2) In September 2003, the Legislature enacted the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004. (Lab. Code, § 2698 et seq., Stats. 2003, ch. 906, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.) The act permits a civil action by an aggrieved employee on behalf of himself or herself and other current or former employees to recover civil penalties for violations of other provisions of the Labor Code. (Lab. Code, § 2699, subd. (a).) It defines an `aggrieved employee' as any person who was employed by the alleged violator and against whom one or more of the alleged violations was [ sic ] committed. ( Id., § 2699, subd. (c).)